Exactly eight years after it was sanctioned in January 2010, India's first Funicular Trolley is all set to be launched on March 4 for pilgrims who throng the famed Saptashrungi Devi hilltop temple here, a top official said.

The Funicular Trolley -- common in several international mountain resorts and villages in Switzerland, Russia and other places -- will zoom up the 1,400 metres tall Saptashrungi Hills in the picturesque north end of Western Ghats to the temple atop, said the Maharashtra Public Works Department Superintending Engineer in Nashik, R.R. Hande.