The Cupboard has cleared the Delhi Metro Part 5A undertaking, a 16-km hall with 13 new stations to be constructed at a price of ₹12,015 crore over three years.
Of the entire 13 stations that might be constructed beneath Part 5A, 10 might be underground and three might be elevated, mentioned the Press Info Bureau (PIB). With the addition of those corridors, the entire operational size of the Delhi Metro community will cross the 400-km milestone.
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The permitted section includes three separate corridors. The longest stretch will run from Ramakrishna Ashram Marg to Indraprastha, overlaying 9.9 km, at a price of ₹9,570.4 crore. One other hall will join Aerocity to Airport Terminal-1, spanning 2.3 km, with an estimated expenditure of ₹1,419.6 crore. The third stretch will hyperlink Tughlakabad to Kalindi Kunj over a distance of three.9 km, costing ₹1,024.8 crore.
These new corridors are geared toward enhancing connectivity in high-traffic areas within the nationwide capital. They will even ease street congestion, and strengthen last-mile entry to key residential, business and transit hubs.
In the meantime, building work on the Saket G Block-Lajpat Nagar stretch of Delhi Metro Part 4 commenced earlier this month, with the Delhi Metro Rail Company (DMRC) formally launching the undertaking. The event was marked by the ground-breaking and first check piling ceremony for the elevated part of the Golden Line (Line-11) at Pushpa Bhawan close to Saket. The hall is slated to be accomplished by 2029.
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Spanning 8 km, the brand new line will department off from the IGI Airport-Tughlakabad hall at Saket G Block and can function eight elevated stations. These stations will come up at Lajpat Nagar, Andrews Ganj, Better Kailash-1, Chirag Delhi, Pushpa Bhawan, Saket District Centre, Pushp Vihar and Saket G Block.
