Pune Metro’s 23-km Pink Line, connecting the city’s major information technology hub in Hinjewadi with Shivajinagar, is scheduled to be inaugurated on November 3, offering a new rail alternative for commuters travelling between the two important urban districts.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the corridor at 12:30 pm through video conferencing. The line, also identified as Pune Metro Line 3, has been built at a cost of more than Rs 8,300 crore and will connect Maan to the District Court Metro station.
The corridor is expected to improve direct public transport access between Hinjewadi and the rest of Pune. Hinjewadi is one of the city’s prominent employment centres, while Shivajinagar is a major urban destination. The new connection is intended to provide an alternative to road travel for thousands of daily commuters.
The Pink Line is also being presented as a distinct operating model because the corridor will be operated entirely by women. The arrangement places the line’s daily operations within a women-led workforce structure, although the supplied report does not provide further details on staffing numbers, operating shifts or the institutional arrangements for running the service.
Around 30% of the corridor’s electricity needs are planned to come from solar energy. The figure is described as a planned share rather than an operational performance measure, and the available information does not specify the solar installations, generation capacity or timeline for achieving that proportion.
The scheduled programme will also include the foundation stone ceremony for the second phase of Pune Metro projects. That expansion is estimated to cost around Rs 13,500 crore, placing the Pink Line inauguration within a broader push to extend Pune’s metro network.
The corridor’s proposed fares are part of the information being examined ahead of the launch, but specific fare slabs are not provided in the supplied report. Details on opening-day operations, service frequency, station-wise schedules and passenger access will determine how quickly the new connection becomes useful to commuters.
The immediate milestone is the scheduled November 3 inauguration, after which the focus will shift to the start of passenger operations and the implementation of the planned features, including the women-operated model and the proposed solar contribution.
