More than 100 passengers were rescued from the Lucknow metro this morning as the first day of the new service turned hellish. The new 8.5-kilometre city train was inaugurated yesterday by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Home Minister Rajnath Singh. 
At 7.15  am,  the train ran into a technical glitch and it stopped for over an hour.  Neither the lights nor air-conditioning worked. The passengers, including school children, were  stuck  till a team of officials from the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) arrived to remove them through an emergency exit.  They were put onto another train from a different station. The metro, which was built while Akhilesh Yadav was Chief Minister, covers 8 stations currently and cost 6,880 crores.

More than 100 passengers were rescued from the Lucknow metro this morning as the first day of the new service turned hellish. The new 8.5-kilometre city train was inaugurated yesterday by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Home Minister Rajnath Singh. 
At 7.15  am,  the train ran into a technical glitch and it stopped for over an hour.  Neither the lights nor air-conditioning worked. The passengers, including school children, were  stuck  till a team of officials from the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) arrived to remove them through an emergency exit.  They were put onto another train from a different station. The metro, which was built while Akhilesh Yadav was Chief Minister, covers 8 stations currently and cost 6,880 crores.