[ecis2016.org] Following the grant of safety clearance, the Delhi Metro Pink Line’s South Campus-Lajpat Nagar section will be thrown open to commuters by the Delhi chief minister and union housing and urban affairs minister, on August 6, 2018
The over eight-km-long South Campus-Lajpat Nagar section of the Delhi Metro’s Pink Line, billed as a ‘corridor for shoppers’, is all set to be inaugurated on August 6, 2018, officials have said. Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and union housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri, are slated to jointly inaugurate it on Monday morning. “They will formally open the section at around 11:30 am, using a remote control at the Metro Bhawan. Passenger services will begin the same day from 1 pm, a senior DMRC official said.
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The 8.10-km-long Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus-Lajpat Nagar section has six stations, including interchange facilities at INA (with Yellow Line) and Lajpat Nagar (Violet Line). Four major markets of the city will be connected on one stretch of the network that will also cut travel time for commuters, by up to 20 minutes. The new stations are – Sir Vishveshariah Moti Bagh, Bhikhaji Cama Place, Sarojini Nagar, INA, South Extension and Lajpat Nagar. Only Sir Vishveshariah Moti Bagh station is elevated, while the rest are underground.
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“This segment will connect four major markets at Sarojini Nagar, INA, South Extension and Lajpat Nagar (Central Market). So, it will be like a corridor for shoppers,” executive director, corporate communications at DMRC, Anuj Dayal said. This stretch is part of the 59-km-long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor (Pink Line), which falls under the Phase-III network of the DMRC.
A total of 23 trains will be put into service, with a frequency of five minutes and 12 seconds during peak hours and five minutes and 45 seconds during non-peak hours, the senior official said. With the opening of this section, the operational span of the Pink Line from Majlis Park to Lajpat Nagar will become 29.66 kms and the entire operational span of the DMRC will reach 296 kms, with 214 stations.
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“This new section would also shrink travel time for commuters by up to 20 minutes. The current travel time on the network between INA and Lajpat Nagar (Violet Line) stations is about 24 minutes, which would reduce to five minutes. Commuting time between Hauz Khas and Lajpat Nagar is 23 minutes, which would shrink to 16 minutes,” Dayal said. The travel time between INA and Rajouri Garden stations would reduce from 40 minutes to 23 minutes; Lajpat Nagar-Rajouri Garden stations from 45 to 28 minutes and Lajpat Nagar to Netaji Subhas Place (Red Line) from 47 minutes to 39 minutes, he said.
Lajpat Nagar is currently served by a station on the Violet Line which has a bustling Central Market in its vicinity and the DMRC is expecting a jump in the station’s footfalls, once the new station on the Pink Line becomes operational. Shoppers and regular commuters travelling to INA Market (neighbouring Delhi Haat), Sarojini Nagar Market and South Extension Market areas, will also save time once the stretch becomes operational.
The new stations have been tastefully decorated, especially INA, Sarojini Nagar, Sir Vishveshariah Moti Bagh and Lajpat Nagar. The first corridor of the Pink Line, from Majlis Park to South Campus, was opened on March 14, 2018, connecting the north and south campuses of the Delhi University on the DMRC network for the first time. The total operational network of Phase-III, after opening of this section, would increase to 106 kms, the DMRC said.
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