Pune Metro Carries 100 Million Passengers Since Launch

10 Oct 2025 CW Team

The Pune Metro, operated by the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (Maha-Metro), has achieved a major milestone by transporting 100 million passengers between its launch on 6 March 2022 and 4 October 2025.

Announcing the achievement, Shravan Hardikar, Managing Director of Maha-Metro, said, “The Metro has provided a fast, comfortable, and eco-friendly mode of travel, and we remain committed to completing the remaining phases and further enhancing our services.”

Since its inauguration, the Pune Metro’s ridership has shown consistent growth, increasing with every phase of network expansion. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first phase — spanning PCMC to Phugewadi and Vanaz to Garware College — in March 2022, the daily ridership stood at around 20,000 to 30,000 passengers.

Following the August 2023 expansion from Phugewadi to Civil Court and Garware College to Ruby Hall Clinic, ridership climbed to between 100,000 and 110,000 passengers per day.

The East–West corridor between Ruby Hall Clinic and Ramwadi, inaugurated on 6 March 2024, further boosted ridership to 120,000–130,000 daily passengers. The opening of the underground stretch from District Court to Swargate on 29 September 2024 pushed daily ridership even higher — reaching between 160,000 and 200,000 commuters.

Maha-Metro officials noted that the steady rise in passenger numbers reflects growing public confidence in the metro system as a reliable, sustainable, and time-efficient mode of urban transport for Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad.

The ongoing expansion aims to provide seamless citywide connectivity, reducing congestion, travel time, and vehicular emissions while supporting Maharashtra’s vision of eco-friendly urban mobility.

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