Purple Line (Pune Metro)

Purple Line of the Pune Metro is the first line of the city's under-construction mass transit network. It will run from PCMC Bhavan to Swargate. The 16.59-km line will be elevated till Range Hills with 9 stations and will further go underground up to Swargate with 5 stations.

Purple Line
Overview
Status	Under Construction
Locale	Pune Metropolitan Region
Termini	PCMC Bhavan Swargate
Stations	14
Service
Type	Rapid Transit
System	Pune Metro
Operator(s)	MahaMetro
Technical
Line length	16.59 km (10.31 mi)
Character	Elevated & Underground
Route map PCMC Bhavan Sant Tukaram Nagar Nashik Phata Kasarwadi Phugewadi Dapodi Bopodi Khadki Range Hills Shivaji Nagar Civil Court Budhwar Peth Mahatma Phule Market Swargate

Route

The line will go via Kasarwadi (Nashik Phata), Khadki and Shivajinagar.[1][2] The maintenance depot for the Purple Line will be located near the Range Hills station on the land acquired from the College of Agriculture.[3][4]

Construction

Soil testing and topographical surveys of the concerned areas started in late December 2016. Excavation work for erection of pillars started in early June, 2017. The construction of the first pillar was completed by October 2017 and construction work of up to ten pillars was underway. The first viaduct was completely erected by January 2018.[5] The first batch of tracks were laid between PCMC and Sant Tukaram Nagar in the second week of July 2019.[6]

List of Stations

Following is a list of stations on this route-

Purple Line
#	Station Name		Status	Connections	Layout
	English	Marathi
1	PCMC Bhavan	पिंपरी-चिंचवड महानगरपालिका भवन	Under Construction	None	Elevated
2	Sant Tukaram Nagar	संत तुकाराम नगर	Under Construction	None	Elevated
3	Nashik Phata	नाशिक फाटा	Under Construction	None	Elevated
4	Kasarwadi	कासारवाडी	Under Construction	None	Elevated
5	Phugewadi	फुगेवाडी	Under Construction	None	Elevated
6	Dapodi	दापोडी	Under Construction	None	Elevated
7	Bopodi	बोपोडी	Under Construction	None	Elevated
8	Khadki	खडकी	Under Construction	None	Elevated
9	Range Hills	रेंज हिल्स	Under Construction	None	Elevated
10	Shivaji Nagar	शिवाजी नगर	Under Construction	Line 3  (planned)	Underground
11	Civil Court	सिव्हिल कोर्ट	Under Construction	Aqua Line  &  Line 3	Underground
12	Budhwar Peth	बुधवार पेठ	Under Construction	None	Underground
13	Mahatma Phule Market	महात्मा फुले मंडई	Under Construction	None	Underground
14	Swargate	स्वारगेट	Under Construction	None	Underground

References

1. pune-metro-full-presentation. Slideshare.net (29 April 2010).
2. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation to revise metro rail project report The Times Of India (27 September 2012).
3. "College of Agriculture campus, a green lung, loses 119 acres to govt projects in three decades". The Indian Express. 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
4. "Pune Metro work hits top gear". Hindustan Times. 2017-12-23. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
5. "MahaMetro Project Update". punemetrorail.org. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
6. "MahaMetro lays tracks between PCMC and Sant Tukaramnagar". The Times of India. July 13, 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.