Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (Maha-Metro) has said its ambitious Rs 11,400 crore Pune Metro project will be operational by 2021.

"We have completed 35 per cent of topography survey and geo-tech investigation work and remaining job is expected to be completed over the next few months. "We hope that first line of Pune Metro will be operational in 2020 and second line by 2021," Maha-Metro Managing Director Brijesh Dixit told PTI in Mumbai.