Delhi Metro’s Lajpat Nagar-Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 section of Pink Line was on Monday flagged off by Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and will be opened for public from 4 pm today.
The inauguration comes after it was given all the necessary approvals from the Safety Commissioner.
“The Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety has accorded the mandatory approval for the commencement of passenger operations on the 9.7-km-long Lajpat Nagar-Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 section of the Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor (Pink Line) of Delhi Metro,” the Delhi Metro Rail Corp (DMRC) had said.
This would be the last section of the longest Pink Line of the Metro network, with other sections connecting Majlis Park to Lajpat Nagar and Trilok Puri to Shiv Vihar having opened in three phases over the last one year.
The 59-km Line will encircle most part of the busy Ring Road and will cover almost the entire road connecting localities as disparately situated as Shalimar Bagh, Anand Vihar and Sarojini Nagar, in north, east and south of Delhi, respectively.
The stretch has six stations: Lajpat Nagar, Vinobapuri, Ashram, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Mayur Vihar-I and Mayur Vihar Pocket-I.
After Anand Vihar, Hazrat Nizamuddin is all set to become the next big transport hub of the city to be connected with the metro, after the newly built stretch between Mayur Vihar Pocket 1 and Lajpat Nagar.
The station will have entry and exit gates opening to both — the Inter-State Bus Terminus at Sarai Kale Khan and the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station, which caters mostly to the south-bound long-distance trains.
“One of the entry/exit points will be within a vicinity of 50 metres from the Sarai Kale Khan ISBT. Another entry/exit will be near the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway station, approximately at a distance of 150 metres,” an official from the Delhi Metro told IANS.
(With inputs from IANS)