While the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) gifted the Capital the Magenta Line on Monday, Delhiites still have to wait for a few more months for the Pink corridor to become operational.
The DMRC has extended the deadline for this line, where trains will run between Majlis Park to Trilokpuri, to June 2018, as opposed to the last deadline of March 2018, set by it.
The longest line to be set up by the DMRC running into 58.59 kilometres will now be completed in two phases.
It had earlier been decided to make it functional in three phases. The Pink corridor has been grappling with land acquisition issues since it was conceptualised which has led to the delay in its completion.
The first deadline for the train was December 2016. The same was however extended to September 2017 since it took some time to address two of the three land acquisition problems.
Meanwhile, it continued to face trouble in Trilokpuri area which prompted the rail corporation to complete the corridor in three phases. These were to be completed between December 2017 to March 2018.
With the DMRC extending the March deadline by another three months, the first phase will see completion of route plying between Majlis Park to Mayur Vihar Phase 1, Pocket 1 by March 2018. It was to be extended only till Durga Bai Deshmukh when the corridor was to completed in three phases.
In the second phase, the metro will run between Shiv Vihar and Vinod Nagar East.
The Pink Corridor will have 38 stations extending over a 58.59 kilometre route. Of this, 39.47 kilometres is elevated line while 19.11 is underground.
WAIT TILL JUNE 2018
- The DMRC has extended the deadline for this line, where trains will run between Majlis Park to Trilokpuri, to June 2018 from its earlier target of March 2018
- The longest line running into 58.59 km will now be completed in two phases
