This is an important update for people who travel by Delhi Metro. The extension of the Green Line from Inderlok to Indraprastha will make New Delhi Metro Station a triple interchange facility, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) officials said on Sunday. The 12.37-km-long Inderlok-Indraprastha corridor will extend the already operational Brigadier Hoshiyar Singh-Inderlok Green Line corridor (28.78 km)…

According to them, this new link would make New Delhi Station an interchange facility where three lines – Yellow, Orange (Airport Line) and now Green Line – will converge.

Green Line Metro Benefits

They said that it will greatly improve connectivity across the city as passengers coming from places like Bahadurgarh and areas of West Delhi such as Nangloi, Rajdhani Park and Udyog Nagar can directly reach New Delhi Railway Station which is adjacent to New Delhi Metro Station.

Green Line Metro Underground Stations

Reaching New Delhi Station would become easier and it would help decongest the station area as more people may prefer to take metro instead of road transport. The existing underground New Delhi Station will be further extended with this new section of Green Line. At present, Kashmere Gate is the only triple interchange station in the DMRC network where Yellow, Red and Violet lines meet.

 

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86 km of New Lines Are Under Construction

After Phase Four, three more stations — Lajpat Nagar, Azadpur and New Delhi — will also become triple interchange facilities. Currently around 86 km of new lines are being built under the Delhi Metro’s Phase Four expansion plan.

Three lines — Janakpuri West-RK Ashram Marg (Violet), Majlis Park-Maujpur (Pink), and Aerocity-Tughlakabad (Golden) — are under construction and over 50% of the civil work has been completed on these sections.

Two more corridors were approved earlier this year, Inderlok-Indraprastha and Saket G Block-Lajpat Nagar. The DMRC is in the process of obtaining statutory approvals, including land acquisition and forest clearance requirements from DDA, CPWD and PWD, they added.