Delhi Metro to get 7 new corridors, 65 stations at Rs 48,204 cr: CM Rekha Gupta
New Delhi (PTI): Metro connectivity in Delhi will be expanded by 97 km with the construction of seven new corridors and 65 stations, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Sunday.
At the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's 32nd Foundation Day, Gupta said the estimated cost to construct all seven corridors, which will connect the the outlying, developing areas of the capital under Metro Phase-V (B), is approximately Rs 48,204.56 crore.
The target is to complete four priority corridors by 2029, she was quoted as saying in a statement by the Delhi CMO.
Gupta said the first corridor will run from Dhansa bus stand in Najafgarh to Nangloi. The 11.859-km stretch will be a fully elevated, independent corridor with nine stations. Interchange facilities will be available at Nangloi (Green Line) and Dhansa bus stand (Grey Line).
The second corridor, the CM said, will link Central Secretariat to Kishangarh over a distance of 15.969 km, out of which 13.731 km will be underground.The route will have 10 stations, including nine underground and one elevated.
The third corridor will extend the existing Line-2 from Samaypur Badli to Narela DDA Sports Complex. This 12.89-km corridor will be fully elevated and will include eight stations, she said. The fourth corridor, will extend Line-5 from Kirti Nagar to Palam, covering 9.967 km.
The Jor Bagh to Mithapur line will span 16.991 and will connect Lodhi Colony, Old Ishwar Nagar, Ali Village, Jaitpur, Moladband and Mithapur. Interchange facilities will be available at Jor Bagh (Yellow Line), Lajpat Nagar (Violet and Pink lines), NSIC Okhla (Magenta Line), Jasola Apollo (Violet Line) and Madanpur Khadar (Golden Line extension), the statement said.
The sixth corridor will run from Shastri Park to Mayur Vihar Phase III, the chief minister said, adding that it will be an independent corridor of 13.197 km with 8.99 km underground section.
The route will cover Mayur Vihar Phase III, New Kondli, Patparganj (Mother Dairy), Geeta Colony, Gandhi Nagar market and Kailash Nagar. Interchange points will include Shastri Park (Red Line), Nirman Vihar (Blue Line) and Trilokpuri (Pink Line), she said.
The seventh corridor, will be developed from Keshavpuram to Rohini Sector 34, spanning fully elevated 16.285 km with 12 stations, she said.
It will connect West Shalimar Bagh, East Pitampura, Rohini Sector 16, Delhi Technological University and Rohini Sector 29. Interchange facilities will be available at Keshavpuram (Red Line), North Pitampura (Pink Line) and Rohini Sector 34 (Red Line), she said.
She directed the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to prepare and submit a revised detailed project reports (DPRs) separately for the priority and non-priority corridors, the CMO statement said.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
