After Calcutta—which got its Metro back in the mid-’80s—it’s time at last for Delhi to join the subway league of London, Paris and New York, thanks to the ambitious Rs 12,000-crore Indo-Japanese project.
The first 8.3-km stretch between Shahdara and Tis Hazari will become fully operational by December. The trains, supplied by a South Korean consortium, will run at a frequency of eight minutes, which is supposed to gradually improve to a train every three minutes, ferrying 23 lakh commuters daily.
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