- It was unveiled at the BEML manufacturing facility in Bengaluru.
- The country’s first Driverless Metro Car is manufactured at Bengaluru’s manufacturing facility of BEML for Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA)’s MRS1 project.
- Total 576 Driverless Metro Cars are to be manufactured for MMRDA and will be supplied in January 2024.
- The Driverless Metro Car is having a stainless-steel body, equipped with CCTV surveillance and can carry 2280 passengers in 6 cars Metro train-set. It will be operating on the 25kv AC traction power supply.
- In order to perform commissioning, testing and round-the-clock services of Driverless Metro cars, BEML has setup a Depot office at Charkop Metro Depot, MMRDA, Mumbai.
- Static Part:
- HQ of BEML: Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Chairman of BEML: Deepak K Hota
Question:
Q.1 Who among the following unveiled India’s first indigenously developed Driverless Metro Car?
a. Piyush Goyal
b. Ravi Shankar Prasad
c. Mansukh Laxmanbhai Mandaviya
d. Rajnath Singh
a. Piyush Goyal
b. Ravi Shankar Prasad
c. Mansukh Laxmanbhai Mandaviya
d. Rajnath Singh