India’s first Ring Metro: PM Modi inaugurates Majlis Park–Maujpur–Babarpur Pink Line

Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday inaugurated 2 caller metro corridors, making Delhi location to India's archetypal afloat operational Ring Metro. Alongside these, the PM besides different unveiled large infrastructure projects, marking a important boost to the city’s nationalist transport and lodging networks.

The full concern crossed these projects is astir Rs 33,500 crore, including Delhi Metro expansions worthy Rs 18,300 crore.Chief Minister Rekha Gupta highlighted the broader benefits, saying the metro enlargement “is expected to marque regular commuting smoother, chopped postulation congestion and assistance tackle contamination successful the capital.” She added that the projects would besides amended entree for residents of the National Capital Region, peculiarly commuters from Noida and Faridabad, and supply amended connectivity to Indira Gandhi International Airport.

India's archetypal Ring Metro

The item was the opening of the Majlis Park–Maujpur–Babarpur agelong of the Pink Line, a 12.3-kilometre corridor with 8 elevated stations. With this addition, the Pink Line present stretches to 71.56 kilometres, making Delhi the archetypal metropolis successful India with a afloat operational Ring Metro. Stations connected this way include:

Alongside the Pink Line, the Deepali Chowk–Majlis Park conception of the Magenta Line, spanning 9.9 kilometres, was besides inaugurated.

Officials said the caller corridors would amended connectivity betwixt North-East and North-West Delhi, trim question clip crossed respective parts of the city, and payment areas including Burari, Jagatpur-Wazirabad, Khajuri Khas, Bhajanpura, Yamuna Vihar, Madhuban Chowk, Haiderpur Badli Mor, Bhalaswa, and Majlis Park. In summation to the inaugurated stretches, PM Modi besides laid the instauration chromatic for 3 caller corridors nether Phase V-A of the Delhi Metro, covering a full magnitude of 16.10 kilometres.

Before the main ceremony, PM Modi besides visited the GPRA Type-5 quarters astatine Sarojini Nagar to manus implicit keys to pistillate allottees. He besides inaugurated and laid the instauration chromatic for projects nether the GPRA Redevelopment Plan, valued astatine Rs 15,200 crore.

The redevelopment, taking spot successful Sarojini Nagar, Netaji Nagar, Kasturba Nagar, and Sriniwaspuri, volition modernise authorities lodging and offices, providing implicit 9,350 flats for authorities employees and creating 48 lakh quadrate feet of bureau space. The task is being implemented done a self-sustaining model, wherever a information of the country is monetised to money the wide redevelopment.