Mobility card in hand, President Droupadi Murmu took a ride on the Delhi Metro on Wednesday, where she interacted with school students. This is the first time after taking office that she took the popular mass transit system. Murmu is the second serving President of India to travel by the Delhi Metro. In 2012, the then President Pratibha Patil had also travelled in the metro. “President Droupadi Murmu travelled in Delhi Metro and interacted with school children during the ride,” the Rashtrapati Bhavan said in a post on X. President Murmu also flagged off a shuttle bus service between Central Secretariat metro station (gate no 4) and Amrit Udyan (gate no 35) for visitors coming to Amrit Udyan, which runs every 30 minutes from 9.30 am to 5 pm, it added. She boarded the Metro at the Central Secretariat metro station on the Kashmere Gate- Raja Nahar Singh Violet Line corridor, travelled up to the Nehru Place metro station and then came back to Central Secretariat, officials said, adding that she asked children about their plans and aspirations, officials said. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s Managing Director, Vikas Kumar, accompanied the President on the journey. Murmu used an NCMC (National Common Mobility Card) RuPay card to undertake the journey. Officials said that the President, in her comments made in the visitor’s book, called the Delhi Metro one of the most modern and efficient mass transportation systems in the world today and that she found the journey pleasant.
