Further delays would have increased additional ticket costs for Metro-3, which will now thankfully not happen,” said Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, while flagging off the train trials on Tuesday morning.

He said the state government had managed to salvage the much-delayed Mumbai Metro Line 3 (Aqua line) in time, and that it would now be completed on schedule in phases starting December 2023 and any further delay would have unnecessarily burdened Mumbaikars.