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Expansion
The New Delhi Metro station is all set to emerge as a triple interchange facility with the extension of the Green Line from Inderlok to Indraprastha. The 12.37-km-long Inderlok-Indraprastha corridor will extend the already operational Brig. Hoshiar Singh-Inderlok Green Line corridor (28.78 km), officials said on Sunday.
Officials said that on this new extension, New Delhi station will be expanded as an interchange facility where three lines Yellow, Orange (Airport Line) and now Green Line will meet each other. This will be a major connectivity boost for the entire city as now passengers coming from Bahadurgarh as well as parts of West Delhi like Nangloi, Rajdhani Park, Udyog Nagar etc. will be able to travel directly to New Delhi Railway Station.
He said this will make access to New Delhi station more convenient and help reduce congestion near the station as more people will prefer to travel by metro than by road. Like the existing New Delhi station, the new extension of the Green Line will also be underground. Currently, Kashmiri Gate is the only triple interchange station on the Delhi Metro network where the Yellow, Red and Violet lines meet. He said after Phase-4, three more stations, Lajpat Nagar, Azadpur and New Delhi, will also emerge as triple interchange facilities.
Currently, about 86 km of new lines are being built as part of the Delhi Metro’s Phase-4 expansion. Construction of three lines Janakpuri West, RK Ashram Marg (purple), Majlis Park-Maujpur (pink) and Aerocity-Tughlakabad (golden) is currently in progress. More than 50 per cent of the civil work on these sections has been completed.
Two more corridors Indralok-Indraprastha and Saket G Block-Lajpat Nagar have also received approval earlier this year. He said DMRC is currently processing for statutory clearances, which include land acquisition and forest clearance requirements from DDA, CPWD and PWD. Further processes are being done regarding planning and tendering for civil works before moving on to exclusive contracts for track laying, electrical systems, signalling and other technical components.