New Delhi
Due to impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, fresh targets have been set for Ph-IV project of the Delhi Metro, and the first section of a priority corridor is planned to be opened by July 2024, DMRC chief Vikas Kumar said.
In an interview to, Kumar also said that besides commissioning of a small 2.5-3 km segment of the Janakpuri West-R K Ashram Marg corridor, the whole Majlis Park-Maujpur corridor is planned to be opened by March 2025.
The managing director of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said the construction of the Ph-IV has brought many firsts for the country, and beam technology-enabled TBMs are being used in the phase to assess strata layers in adssssssvance so that there are no surprises during the drilling process.
The work on Ph-IV, which had begun in December 2019, was hit due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 in Delhi.
At present, the DMRC is undertaking construction work on 65.2 km of three priority corridors spanning 45 stations under the project – Janakpuri West-RK Ashram Marg (28.92 km), Majlis Park-Maujpur (12.55 km), which are extensions of the already operational Magenta Line and Pink Line, and Aerocity-Tughlakabad (23.62 km) that is being built as ‘Silver Line’, connecting the operational Violet Line and Airport Line from the respective ends.
Because of COVID-19, fresh targets were set, and we are on the road for those targets. I can tell you the first section which we are going to open – Janakpuri West to Krishna Park (Extension). That is a small stretch, but we are planning to open it by July 2024. It is about 2.5-3 km in length. The next in line is the whole stretch of Majlis Park-Maujpur by March 2025, Kumar told.
