Delhi Metro: Work on 2 key lines completed 80-85 per cent

Work on upcoming Pink and Magenta Lines of the Delhi Metro, with over 60 stations, has been completed 80 and 85 per cent respectively, according to latest Delhi Metro Rail Corporation data. The 58.6-km Pink Line, once made operational, will be the longest corridor of the rapidly expanding Metro grid, touching portions of the Inner Ring Road and connecting areas such as Mayur Vihar to South Extension.

“Progress of civil work upto January 2016 is 80.23 per cent. The line, between Mukundpur and Shiv Vihar, is targeted for completion in December 2016,” the DMRC data revealed. The line will have 38 stations. Another major line, christened Magenta, as part of the Delhi Metro’s Phase III project, will measure 34-km and connect Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden, Noida. There, progress of civil work upto January 2016 is 84.63 per cent with the completion target of December 2016, as per work status till January.

The line will directly connect domestic section of the IGI Airport to South Delhi areas and even Noida. With 23 stations, it will also have interchange facilities with the already operational Blue, Yellow and Violet Lines.

The Delhi Metro has set October as target to launch its much-awaited Heritage Corridor that will extend between Central Secretariat and Kashmere Gate bringing historic sites such as Red Fort and Jama Masjid into its operational fold. “Progress of civil work up to January 2016 on the 9-km line is 92.35 per cent and is targeted for completion in September 2016,” a Metro spokesperson said. The project was to be ready by December 2015.

Work on the upcoming Dwarka-Najafgarh and the Mundka-Bahadurgarh sections has progressed to 55 and 66 per cent respectively. They are also targeted for completion in December this year. While there will be three stations in the 4.3-km Dwarka-Najafgarh extension of the Blue Line, the Mundka-Bahadurgarh section, an extension of the Green Line, will have seven stations.

The crisscrossing of the new lines with the existing corridors at many places will take the number of interchange stations to 27.