The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) resumed its services on the Airport Express line on Saturday after a halt of more 170 days due to the coronavirus pandemic. From Saturday, September 12, all trains on all lines of Delhi Metro will resume the pre-COVID timing of the operation from 6 am to 11 pm.
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has issued new guidelines with respect to the resumption of normal services on all lines. In a tweet, the DMRC informed that from the coming Sunday (September 13), Metro operations will start at 6 AM on all sections.
Services started at 7 AM as part of the second stage of the graded reopening of Delhi Metro, which was closed on March 22 to check the spread of the novel coronavirus.
After being closed for 172 days due to COVID-19 pandemic, Delhi Metro's Red Line, Violet Line and Green Line resumed services on Thursday. Earlier on Monday, Yellow Line and Rapid Metro were the first to reopen, followed by Blue Line and Pink Line on Wednesday.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Wednesday resumed services on Blue and Pink lines after being closed since March due to coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, Yellow line was resumed on Monday with limited operations. According to DMRC, metro trains will run from 7 am to 11 am in the morning and 4 pm to 8 pm in the evening on both the lines.
After a successful resumption along the Yellow Line and Rapid Metro line, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is all set to resume services on the Blue Line, the city’s longest metro line that connects Dwarka Sec 21 to Electronic City/Vaishali, and Pink Line, from Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar on Wednesday.
As many as 15,500 passengers availed the services of Delhi Metro's Yellow Line and Gurugram's Rapid Metro till 8.30 p.m. on Monday, the first day of resumption of metro services since India went into lockdown in late March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) resumed its services on Monday after a five-month suspension, CISF Director General Rajesh Ranjan appealed to the passengers to carry bare minimum hand baggage and metallic items.
The first metro left the platform from Huda City Centre metro station in Gurugram, in Haryana for Samaypur Badli metro station in Delhi at 7 a.m. "We are on our way", tweeted Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
After more than five months, metro services have resumed across the country with proper social distancing norms and measures in place amid coronavirus concerns.
Delhi Metro is ready to resume its services from September 07. The metro will run after a 5-month shutdown. Cleaning and sanitisation activities are being carried out at the depots.
As metro train services will resume from tomorrow (September 7) in a graded manner after nearly six months of the shutdown, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) introduced a new travel protocol for commuters in view of COVID-19.
Tokens won't be accepted in the Delhi Metro when its services resume on September 7 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In a bid to allay people's fears of catching coronavirus infection in closed and cramped metro compartments, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has modified the air conditioning system of the trains to allow 100 percent inflow of fresh air.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is all set resume its services for public from September 7, after more than five months. In the wake of coronavirus pandemic, the Centre suspended the metro rail services in the last week of March.
A detailed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for safe operations of Metro services will be issued in the next few days after a meeting between officers of the Transport Department and the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).
Delhi Transport Minister, Kailash Gahlot said that they will ensure social distancing in the metros.
The Central Government on August 30 announced guidelines for Unlock 4.0.
Schools, colleges, educational and coaching institutions will continue to remain shut for students and regular class activity up to September 30. Online/distance learning will continue to be permitted and shall be encouraged, said the government.
From limiting the number of people in lifts and longer halting time for trains at stations to allow passengers to board and alight with social distancing norms, are among the measures the Delhi Metro will take to ensure safer travel for its passengers, whenever metro services resume.
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