Day 1: Almost 15,500 passengers used Delhi Metro till 8.30 pm

08/09/2020

New Delhi: Delhi Metro, the lifeline of the national capital region, on Monday finally rolled on the tracks after coming to a screeching halt over five months ago due to coronavirus pandemic, in New Delhi on Sep 7, 2020. For two days the yellow line, covering 49 kilometre with 37 stations consisting of 20 underground and 17 elevated stations, will remain operational for a period of four hours each in the morning, from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., and evening, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. According to Anuj Dayal, DMRC's Executive Director of Corporate Communication, over a period of next five days, rest of the lines will also be made operational with all safety measures in place to check the spread of Covid-19 in the metro premises which requires everyone to follow a new normal of social distancing, face mask and hand sanitisation.

New Delhi, (Samajweekly) As much as 15,500 passengers availed the services of Delhi Metro’s Yellow Line and Gurugram’s Rapid Metro till 8.30 p.m. on Monday, the first day of resumption of metro services since India went into lockdown in late March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“This is an approximate figure as the last trains started from terminal stations at 8.30 p.m. Final figures may have minor upward revision by the end of revenue service,” said a DMRC official.

Meanwhile, as many as 1,115 new smart cards were sold on Monday.

Earlier in the evening, DMRC tweeted, “Delhi Metro has begun its graded resumption of services today. Travelling from Rajiv Chowk to Malviya Nagar by metro, MD-DMRC Mangu Singh inspected the system keeping in view the new guidelines during the Pandemic.”

DMRC resumed its services on Yellow Line and Rapid Metro, as per the graded resumption plan, from 7 a.m. on Monday. Operations in the first four hours were smooth with approximately 7,500 passengers availing the services.

“DMRC got complete cooperation from its commuters who availed the services for the first time in 169 days with all new norms of Metro travel in place owing to the ongoing pandemic,” DMRC’s Anuj Dayal said.

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