DELHI METRO SYMBOL OF INDIA'S PROGRESS

Elattuvalapil Sreedharan who has given the nation the hugely impressive Delhi Metro project, has been rated one of India's 50 most powerful  people by India Today magazine.The 74-year railway engineer from Kerala, now the managing director, Delhi Metro, insists he is just doing a job entrusted to him by the government.Other members involved in DMRC are as follows-

1.Chairman-Shri Navin Kumar

2.Total no of directors-16

3.Nominee of govt. of India-5

4.Nominee of govt. of NCTD-5(including MD)

5.No of full-time functional directors at present including MD-7.

The Delhi Metro, a mass rapid transit system built and operated by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), serves many parts of Delhi as well as the satellite city of Gurgaon and Noida. 

Delhi Metro is a world-class metro. To ensure reliability and safety in train operations, it is equipped with the most modern communication and train control system. It has state-of-art air-conditioned coaches. Ticketing and passenger control are through Automatic Fare Collection System, which is introduced in the country for the first time. Travelling in Delhi Metro is a pleasure with trains ultimately available at three minutes frequency. Entries and exits to metro stations are controlled by flap-doors operated by 'smart-cards' and contact less tokens. For convenience of commuters, adequate number of escalators are installed at metro stations.feature of Delhi Metro is its integration with other modes of public transport, enabling the commuters to conveniently interchange from one mode to another. To increase ridership of Delhi Metro, feeder buses for metro stations are Operating. In short, Delhi Metro is a trendsetter for such systems in other cities of the country and in the South Asian region.



 


DELHI METRO PLATFORM, SOURCE: GOOGLE

 

INSIDE VIEW OF DELHI METRO,SOURCE:GOOGLE

 

 





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