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Hyderabad Metro Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate it in this week along with Chief Minister Chandrashekhar Rao. The fares have been announced recently. The metro rail services would begin from 6 AM on November 29 on the 30-kilometre Nagole-Ameerpet-Miyapur section, a day after its inauguration. The fare starts from a minimum of Rs 10 for a distance of up to two kilometres and the maximum fare is Rs 60 for a distance of more than 26 km. Among the highlights are road-level ramps for wheelchairs, wide corridors for easy manoeuvrability at stations, extra wide automated fare collection gates, spacious lifts with Braille buttons and a tactile strip till the edge of the platform to help the visually challenged navigate better.