The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is all set to resume services on the Blue Line and Pink Line on Wednesday after a hiatus of 171 days.
The Blue Line number connecting Dwarka to Electronic City/Vaishali (65.35 km/58 stations) and Pink Line number which connect from Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar (57.58 km and 38 stations) will be re-open as part of the Stage-I of graded resumption of Metro services.
A senior DMRC official said that services on these two corridors will be available from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM in the morning and from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM in the evening along with Yellow/Rapid Lines which are already operational since Monday as per the given timings.
The two corridors will ensure availability of nine of the existing 28 interchange metro stations such as Rajouri Garden (Blue Line and Pink Like), INA Delhi Haat (Yellow and Pink Line),Mayur Vihar Phase – I (Blue Line and Pink Line) Karkarduma (Blue Line & Pink Line), Rajiv Chowk (Blue Line and Yellow Line), Yamuna Bank (Blue Line 3 and 4), Anand Vihar ISBT (Blue Line & Pink Line), Azadpur (Pink Line & Yellow Line) and Sikanderpur (Yellow Line and Rapid Metro).
“DMRC will be running 66 trains on Blue Line performing around 478 train trips during morning and evening hours on 9th and 10th September. Similarly, 27 trains with about 228 trips from Majlis Park to Mayur Vihar Pocket-1 and 13 trains with around 291 trips from Trilok Puri-Sanjay Lake to Shiv Vihar sections of Pink line will be put into service on these two days. The trips,will be subsequently increased as the operational timing of services get extended on 11th and 12th September with the opening of other Lines in a graded manner," said Anuj Dayal, Executive Director, Corporate Communication, DMRC.
The list of Gates which will remain open for entry of passengers at each station along with all necessary updates will be available at the official website of DMRC www.delhimetrorail.com for easy access of the passenger information.
The official said that in addition to above Lines, three more Lines- Red Line i.e, Line-1 from Rithala to Shaheed Sthal New Bus Adda (Ghaziabad), Green Line i.e, Line-5 from Kirti Nagar/Inderlok to Brigadier Hosihar Singh (Bahadurgarh) and Violet Line i.e, Line-6 from Kashmere Gate to Raja Nahar Singh (Ballabhgarh) will also resume services from 10th September with the same schedule of four hours as per the Stage-I plan of resumption of Metro services.
The remaining sections and the entire network of Delhi Metro will be made operational for passenger service from 12th September 2020, said an official.