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Metro Railway, Kolkata, is the owner and operator of Kolkata Metro, the oldest metro system of India. On 29 December 2010, it became the 17th zone of the Indian Railways , operated by the Ministry of Railways .
Indian Railways is a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India that operates India's national railway system. It is headed by a Railway Board whose chairman reports to the Ministry of Railways.
On 29 December 2010, Metro Railway, Kolkata, became the 17th zone of the Indian Railways, completely owned and funded by the Ministry of Railways. It is the only metro system in the country to be controlled by Indian Railways. Around 300 daily train trips carry more than 700,000 passengers.
This line was the first underground railway to be built in India, with the first operations commencing in October 1984 and the full stretch that was initially planned being operational by February 1995. On 28 December 2010, Kolkata Metro became the 17th zone of the Indian Railways. [2]
The first modern rapid transit in India is the Kolkata Metro which started its operations in 1984 as the 17th Zone of the Indian Railways. [109] The Delhi Metro in New Delhi is India's second conventional metro and began operations in 2002. The Namma Metro in Bengaluru is India's third operational rapid transit and began operations in 2011.
As of 2011, the total railway route length was around 4,481 km (2,784 mi). [127]: 20 Kolkata is the headquarters of three zones of the Indian Railways—Eastern Railway and South Eastern Railway and the Kolkata Metro, which is the newly formed 17th zone of the Indian Railways.
5 or 6 (45XXX, 46XXX): Northern Railway zone; 7 (47XXX): South Central Railway zone; If the first digit is 5, 6 or 7, the second digit identifies the railway zone where the train is operated or maintained: 0 (E0XXX): Konkan Railway; 1 (E1XXX): Some Central and West Central Railway zone trains; 2 (E2XXX): Some Northern, North Central, North ...
Pages in category "Zones of Indian Railways" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... South Central Railway zone;