Delhi Metro Training Institute renamed, gets new logo: DMRC

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Training Institute, functioning since 2002 at the Shastri Park Depot here, was on Tuesday renamed as Delhi Metro Rail Academy (DMRA), officials said.

The institute, which also got a new logo, has imparted training to around 25,000 Delhi Metro personnel and 2000 personnel from other metros in India and neighboring countries, they said.

"The Delhi Metro Training Institute was today given a new name and logo. The institute will henceforth be known as the Delhi Metro Rail Academy (DMRA)," the DMRC said in a statement.

Mangu Singh, Managing Director of DMRC, said, "The Delhi Metro Rail Academy will further raise the bar in the quality of training in the field of Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS)".

"The academy will now be headed by a dean and each department will be led by a professor. The faculty will be strengthened by a team of full-time professors, associate and assistant professors, and lecturers," she said.

DMRA is a premier institute in the country which is equipped with all modern facilities to impart customised training on every aspect of project planning, implementation, and operations and maintenance of the MRTS.