By IANS,
New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has trained more than 150 personnel of the Bangalore Metro, which is to soon start its operations.
According to a DMRC statement Sunday, 153 young professionals of the Bangalore Metro – including station controllers, train operators, section engineers, junior engineers and maintainers – underwent training at the DMRC training school in custom-made training modules.
“The training modules included sessions on train station operation, signaling, telecommunication, automatic fare collection gate operation and rolling stock maintenance among others,” the statement said.
This, the statement added, was part of the preparations by the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) which will start its operations soon.
The DMRC training school is in Shastri Park in Delhi.
“The training session of these professionals had begun with a batch of 82 station controllers and train operators in August last year. The DMRC had also imparted training to some BMRCL engineers in 2008,” the statement said.
“Executives from Mumbai Metro Rail and Jaipur Metro have also taken training at the Shastri Park Training Institute, as this training school is the only one of its kind in the entire country,” it added.