New Delhi, Jan 07: The Metro Rail Corporation have a host of VIP rides listed for this week which includes a journey for vice president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.

Announcing the VVIP ride schedule, Metro chairman Madan Lal Khurana told reporters that Shekhawat would take a ride on the Metro train on Thursday. The VIP journey would be followed the next day by a ride by all state governors, who will be assembling in the National Capital, for a conference. Claiming that DMRC has now acquired the expertise to act as a nodal consultancy agency for such projects in the country, Khurana said that states planning to have such a mass rapid transport system could take benefit from it.

"We are already providing technical consultancy to Bangalore and talks are in the final stage for the same with Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kochi," he said.
Bureau Report