Travelling will be smoother for the people of Najafgarh and the nearby villages as the Grey Corridor that will connect entire area till Dhansa will start by September this year.
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has also started the construction the last Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) on Thursday.
“The TBM will bore a 700-metre-long tunnel between Najafgarh and Dhansa Stand on the up line and the same machine will be subsequently used for tunnelling on the down line between the same stations. Entire tunnelling work on both up and down lines will be completed by September later this year,” said Anuj Dayal, Executive Director, (Corporate Communication), DMRC.
This section is an extension of the 4.295 kilometre long Dwarka-Najafgarh Metro corridor. The work for this section was formally awarded in late 2017 and the target date for completion is December, 2020. On the Dwarka-Najafgarh section, over 90 per cent of construction work is complete and passenger services expected to start by September this year.
The total distance between Najafgarh and Dhansa Stand is 1.2 kilometres. The entire stretch is underground. While 700 metres will be constructed using TBM, the rest will be done by the Cut and Cover technology in which excavation is done for underground construction and then the area is covered again.
Delhi Metro currently operates on a network of 327 kilometres with 236 Metro stations. This network includes over a hundred kilometres of underground lines spread across the national Capital.