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NOIDA: The Noida-Greater Noida Metro, which opened for public on Saturday, witnessed a total ridership of 11,625 passengers on day one, with officials expecting a major surge on Monday onwards. The metro rail service, also known as the Aqua Line, was inaugurated on Friday by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath but it was opened for citizens only on Republic Day , with curtailed timings from 10 am to 5 pm, the Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) said. "Total ridership on the metro line stood at 11,625, with the highest number of passengers boarding from Pari Chowk and Depot Stations (also the terminus station at one end) in Greater Noida ," NMRC Executive Director P D Upadhyay said. Monday onwards, as we begin full-fledged service from 6 am to 10 pm and offices, schools and colleges reopen, we are expecting more commuters to get on board," he told . "The metro services maintained a 100 per cent punctuality during its run today," Upadhyay said.Built for Rs 5,503 crore, the rail service runs through 21 stations -- 15 of them in Noida and six in Greater Noida -- as it connects the twin-cities covering a distance of 29.7 km..