Good news for Delhiites, the Pink metro Line is all set to begin operation on March 14. According to sources, the Commissioner for Metro Rail Safety has finished the inspection of the Majlis Park-Durgabhai Deshmukh South Campus section, inspect the section, including fire safety clearance, license for working lifts, preliminary independent safety assessment reports for signaling and platform screen doors (PSDs), has given the clearance for the project.
The trial runs and testing on this stretch was successfully completed in earlier February. These trial runs were being conducted to test the new signaling technology.
Azadpur Station (with Yellow Line) is one of the three interchange stations on the Pink Line stretch that opens tomorrow, the other two being, Rajouri Garden (Blue Line) and Netaji Subhash Place (with Red Line).
The 21.56 km-long Majlis Park–Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus Metro corridor will be formally flagged off by Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs (independent charge) Hardeep Singh Puri and Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal on 14 March at 4 pm from the Metro Bhawan.
According to sources, Passenger services on the Pink Line will begin from 6 pm onwards on the same day from both Majlis Park and Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus stations instantaneously. The end-to-end commuting time on this section of the Pink Line would be approximately 34 minutes.
This section, which has 12 stations, is part of the 59 km-long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor (Pink Line–Line 7) of Delhi Metro’s Phase 3. All the stations have platform-screen doors.
The stations are—Majlis Park, Azadpur, Shalimar Bagh, Netaji Subhash Place, Shakurpur, Punjabi Bagh West, ESI Hospital, Rajouri Garden, Mayapuri, Naraina Vihar, Delhi Cantt and Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus.
Out of the 12 stations, eight are elevated and four are underground. As with the recently-opened Magenta Line, broad-sized coaches from the new rolling stock will be used on the standard gauge Pink line.
The new Netaji Subhash Place station, which is semi-underground, has been sophisticatedly decorated with paintings on walls. All the stations have been certified as ‘Platinum’ by the India Green Building Council, the DMRC said.