Saddi Dilli’s Delhi Metro….

Delhi Metro has changed the face of transportation in Saddi Dilli. The Delhi Metro has been specially designed keeping in mind the comfort of the passengers and the traffic on the road the metro rail services in Dilli have been appreciated all over the world. As expected the metro railway network has almost covered the entire city and with continuous endeavors of expansion most of the neighboring areas and suburbs will be covered by the metro railway by the end of 2020.

Today the Delhi Metro which is a rapid transit system is serving Dilli, Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad in the National Capital Region (NCR) of India. In all the Delhi Metro network consists of six lines with a total length of 193 km with 145 stations of which 35 are underground, five are at ground level and the rest are elevated. It has a combination of elevated, ground level and underground lines and uses both broad gauge and standard gauge rolling stock.

As of August 27, 2011, the whole of Phase-I and Phase-II are complete, with the network comprising six lines with 145 metro stations and a total length of 193 km.

Line	Started	Extended	Stations	Length (km)	Terminals		Rolling stock
Red Line	24th Dec 2002	4th Jun 2008	21	25.15	Dilshad Garden	Rithala	23 trains
Yellow Line	20th Dec 2004	3rd Sep 2010	34	44.65	Jahangirpuri	HUDA City Centre	45 trains
Blue Line	31st Dec 2005	30th Oct 2010	44	49.93	Noida City Centre	Dwarka Sector 21	59 trains
	7th Jan 2010	14th Jul 2011	8	8.75	Yamuna Bank	Vaishali
Green Line	3rd Apr 2010	—	15	18.46	Inderlok	Mundka	15 trains
	27th Aug 2011	—	2	3.32	Kirti Nagar	Ashok Park Main
Violet Line	3rd Oct 2010	14th Jan 2011	15	20.04	Central Secretariat	Badarpur	29 trains
Airport Express	23rd Feb 2011	—	6	22.70	New Delhi	Dwarka Sector 21	8 trains

The Delhi Metro railway service has become a boon for the people of Saddi Dilli and it is continuously expanding leaps and bounds. The metro railway has been very successful in reducing the city’s traffic and pollution levels. Expansion plans of the Delhi Metro started especially for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. After the Commonwealth Games were over the construction of other important lines are still under progress and three new lines have been recently added.

Delhi Metro has been built and operated by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC). As of November 2010, DMRC operates around 2,700 trips daily between 6:00 and 23:00 running with an interval of 2 minutes 30 seconds between trains at peak frequency. The trains are mainly of four coaches, but due to increase in passenger’s numbers, six-coach trains are also added on the Yellow Line (Jahangirpuri to HUDA city center), Blue Line (Dwarka sec −21 to Vaishali/NOIDA city center) and Violet Line (Central Secretariat to Badarpur). The Delhi Metro has an average daily ridership of 1.8 million commuters, and, as of July 2011, had carried over 1.25 billion commuters since its inception. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail and rail-based system in the world to get “carbon credits for reducing greenhouse gas emissions” and helping in reducing pollution levels in the city by 630,000 tons every year.

Although the Delhi Metro is not the first in India but it can be said to be the first of its kind in the country. Constructed with the utmost architectural brilliance and state of art facility the Delhi metro is very different from the other metro rails in the world. Apart from being technologically sound the one thing that has been given prime importance within the Delhi metro is security. 

The construction of the Delhi Metro has been spanned in a phased manner. Most of the routes under Phase 1 were completed before 2010. The Phase II covers almost 79 stations and was successfully completed in 2010. The other projects in the pipeline are Phase III and IV which have a network spanning over 413 km and are expected to be ready by the end of 2020.