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Three caller corridors spanning 16 km volition beryllium added to the Delhi Metro web nether the Phase-V(A) task astatine a full outgo of implicit ₹12,000 crore, arsenic the Union Cabinet connected Wednesday approved the enlargement aimed astatine strengthening inter-city connectivity.
The enlargement volition see 13 caller stations, 10 underground and 3 elevated, and is expected to beryllium completed wrong 3 years. Once operational, the caller corridors are estimated to trim c emissions by astir 33,000 tonnes annually. With this approval, the Delhi Metro network, which presently spans astir 395 km, is acceptable to transverse the 400-km milestone.
The longest of the 3 corridors, costing ₹9,570 crore, volition tally for 9.9 km betwixt R.K. Ashram Marg and Indraprastha. The different 2 corridors approved by the Cabinet are the 2.263-km Aerocity-Airport Terminal-1 agelong with an outlay of ₹1,419 crore, and the 3.9-km Tughlakabad-Kalindi Kunj corridor costing ₹1,024 crore.
Will trim congestion
Reacting to the Cabinet decision, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the enlargement would importantly amended municipality mobility successful the Capital. “Delhi’s infrastructure gets a large boost! Cabinet’s support for 3 caller corridors arsenic portion of Delhi Metro’s Phase-V(A) task volition grow our Capital’s metro network, frankincense boosting easiness of surviving and reducing congestion,” Mr. Modi said successful a station connected X.
Union Minister for Railways and Information & Broadcasting Ashwini Vaishnaw said the caller signifier would heighten connectivity wrong Delhi and crossed neighbouring cities. He noted that portion the Metro presently has 12 lines, six projects are already nether operation to widen existing corridors. “At present, Delhi Metro has 395 km, and with the summation of Phase-V(A), it volition transverse 400 km,” helium said.
Highlighting commuter benefits, Mr. Vaishnaw said the Tughlakabad-Kalindi Kunj hold would supply nonstop Gurugram connectivity to commuters from Noida and Faridabad and prevention important question time. He said that improved connectivity to Kartavya Bhawan would payment those commuting from crossed the NCR and assistance easiness postulation congestion and pollution.
The Minister besides said the R.K. Ashram corridor would nexus the Airport Express Line with Central Secretariat and further link it to Indraprastha connected the Blue Line. “The Airport Express Line volition nexus Aerocity to Terminal-1,” helium said. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is presently implementing Phase IV, nether which construction is apt to grow the web by astir 110 km.
