A snag in the Delhi Metro occurred on Monday morning disrupting the services and leading to overcrowding for nearly one hour at Huda City Centre metro station.
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation informed that the obstruction in the station was happened due to a technical glitch in the Automatic Fare Collection machine for 10 minutes. The incident took place in the yellow line section that connects from Huda City centre to Samaypur Badli.
However, the passengers travelling on the section told that all the AFC gates installed at the Huda City Centre metro station was not working for about one nearly an hour which lead to a chaos and overcrowding in the station.
The token users were manually facilitated for exiting the station, while the smart card users were facilitated from one wide Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) gate, which was functional at that time, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said.
The AFC gates at the Huda City Centre metro station stopped working from 11.12 am to 11.21 am due to a technical glitch caused by miniature circuit breaker trip. Further, the daily metro users stressed that travelling in the metro train has become a problematic day by day as daily there is any problem pops up in the Delhi Metro disrupting the movement of the train and delays the services.
Recently, train services were stopped in the Magenta line connecting from Janakpuri (West) to Botanical Garden due to 'Overhead Electricity'. Further in the same line unusual rain water leakages from the tunnels flooded into the under section stations between Kalkaji to Botanical Garden, leading to a major obstruction in the line.
“Technical issues and other major safety issues should be checked thoroughly by the Delhi Metro before its opening. Whenever rain falls, there is some problem occurs in the magenta line. Either a snag comes or train services stops in the section, which becomes a very chaotic situation for the passengers,” said a commuters.