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Delhi Metro

Background

Locale

 NCR , India

Transit type

Metro

Number of lines

6 (excluding Airport Express line) 7 (including Airport Express line)

[1] Number of stations 142

 

Daily ridership

2.01 million million[2] 

Chief executive

Singh, MD   Mangu Singh,

Headquarters

New Delhi Delhi   Metro Bhawan,  Bhawan, Barakhamba Road, Road,  New

Website

www.delhimetrorail.com

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Operation

Began operation

24 December 2002; 10 years ago

Operator(s)

Corporation  Ltd (DMRC),   Delhi Metro Rail Corporation 

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Train length

4/6/8 coaches coaches[4][5] 

Technical

System length

192.7 kilometres (119.7 mi) mi)[1] 

Track gauge

1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)  in) broad  broad gauge  gauge  gauge   1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1  ⁄  2 in)  in)  standard gauge

Electrification

Single phase 25 kV, 50 Hz AC throug through hoverhead catenary   catenary [hide] hide]System map

Delhi Metro (Hindi:

   ) is a  a metro  metro system serving  serving Delhi, Delhi, Gurgaon, Gurgaon, Faridabad Faridabad,, Noida Noida,, 

and  Ghaziabad and Ghaziabad  in the the  National Capital Region  Region of India. Delhi Metro is the world's thirteenth largest metro system in terms of length. Delhi Metro is India's first modern public transportation system,which has revolutionized travel by providing a fast, reliable, safe, and comfortable means of transport. The network consists of six lines with a total length of 189.63 kilometres (117.83 mi) with 142  142 stations, stations, of which 35 are underground, five are at-grade, and the remainder are elevated. All stations have escalators, elevators, and tactile tiles to guide the visually impaired from station entrances to trains. It has a combination of elevated, gauge  and  and standard gauge gauger  r o olling lling stock. Four types at-grade, and underground lines, and uses both  both broad gauge of rolling stock are used:  used: Mitsubishi Mitsubishi  Rotem broad gauge,  gauge, Bombardier  Movia, Movia, Mitsubishi Rotem standard gauge, and  and CAF Beasain  Beasain standard gauge. Delhi Metro was being built and operated by the  Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Corporation  Limited (DMRC), a  a stateowned  company with equal equity participation from  owned from Government of India  India and Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi. However, the organisation is under administrative control of Ministry of Urban India.. Besides construction and operation of Delhi metro, DMRC is also Development, Government of India

 

involved in the planning and implementation of metro rail, monorail and high-speed rail projects in India and providing consultancy services to other metro projects in the country as well as abroad.  As of November 2010, DMRC operates around 2,700 trips daily between 06:00 and 23:00 running with an interval of 2 minutes 40 seconds between trains at peak frequency. frequency.

[6][7]

 The trains are usually of four and six

coaches, but due to increase in the number of passengers, eight-coach trains are added on the Yellow Line [8]

(Jahangirpuri to HUDA city centre) and Blue line (Dwarka Sector-21 to Noida City Centre/Vaishali). Centre/Vaishali).  Yellow line being the first one with eight coach trains. trains.

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 The power output is supplied by 25-kilovolt 25-kilovolt,, 50-

current through  hertzalternating current  through overhead catenary catenary.. The metro has an average daily ridership of 2.01 [2]

million commuters, commuters,  and, as of August 2010, had already carried over 1.25 billion commuters since its [10]

inception.. inception

 The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has been certified by the United Nations  Nations as the first metro rail

and rail-based system in the world to get "carbon credits for reducing greenhouse gas emissions" and [11]

helping in reducing pollution levels in i n the city by 630,000 tonnes every year .

 

Planning for the metro started in 1984, when the  the Delhi Development Authority Authority  and the Urban Arts Commission came up with a proposal for developing a multi-modal transport system for the city. The  Government of India  The India and the  the Government of Delhi Delhi  jointly  jointly set up the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) registered on 3 May 1995 under the Companies Act, 1956. Construction started in 1998, and the Line,, opened in 2002, followed by the  the  Yellow Line  Line in 2004, the  the Blue Line  Line in 2005, first section, on the  the Red Line its branch line in 2009, the  the Green Greena and nd  Violet Lines  Lines in 2010, and the  the Delhi Airport Metro Express  Express in 2011. Gurgaon,, whilst linked to it by the Yellow Line is a separate metro The recently opened  opened Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon system, although tickets from the Delhi Metro can be used in its' network.