On record
Built at a cost of ₹8,680 crore against a Detailed Project Report forecast of 41 lakh daily passengers by 2026, Nagpur Metro carried only 69,863 daily passengers in 2023-24 (about 17% of that target), while farebox revenue of ₹64.4 crore fell far short of the projected ₹434 crore. The system has posted operating losses every year since 2016-17, including ₹178.58 crore in 2020-21, and continues to run monthly losses of ₹2.5-3 crore.
The official record states: "A 2025 review attributed the gap to "inaccurate demand forecasts, infrastructure misalignment with city needs, subsidies for private vehicles, and poor transit integration.""
“Forecast 41 lakh daily riders; carried 70,000. The DPR was off by a city.”— Blunderlust Editorial Desk
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Visitor reviews Satire
“The report forecast forty-one lakh riders a day and the metro carries about seventy thousand. The projection was out by a city.”
“Rode Reach-3 at eight in the morning with a carriage to myself, which is lovely and costs three crore a month in losses.”
“Eight thousand six hundred crore of metro, sixty-four crore of fares, and a review blaming the demand forecast that justified it.”
