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Delhi Metro | Mayur Vihar- I station to benefit Delhites in big way

24/09/2018

Delhi: Once the Delhi Metro Pink Line of Mayur Vihar Station will open, travelling between East to South Delhi will be easy. The interchange facility will help daily commuters in a big way.

The Pink Line of Lajpat Nagar-Mayur Vihar-I section will be covering five metro stations. These would be Mayur Vihar Pocket-I, Mayur Vihar-I, Hazrat Nizamuddin, Ashram and Vinoba Puri.

Once this stretch opens, travelling from East to South Delhi will be 15 minutes affair. The 9.7km long line will give direct connectivity to metro riders for those looking to reach South Delhi areas. These include Moti Bagh, Sarojini Nagar, South Extension, Ashram and Lajpat Nagar.

Trail run for the stretch has already begun and will be covering five Delhi Metro stations. Post trail run, once the station is operational, it will become interchange station. This line will be connecting Blue Line with Pink Line.

Mayur Vihar – I station will be big hub in East Delhi. It will aid in linking South Delhi with East Delhi areas like – Laxmi Nagar, Anand Vihar, Preet Vihar and additionally to Vaishali in Ghaziabad via the Blue Line.

Delhi Metro commuters will not have to take long route via of taking Rajiv Chowk or Mandi House metro stations. They can board a train train to Noida City Centre from the Blue Line station. The section will also facilitate travel to residents of East Delhi in reaching Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station and Sarai Kale Khan ISBT. This stretch currently does not have any metro connectivity.

Features of the New Mayur Vihar – I station

Built at a height of 22 metres
It is 10 metres higher than the Blue Line Delhi Metro station
Both the two metro stations connected by a 63 metre footbridge
Built a mezzanine floor owing to height difference between the two metro stations

Currently, 30,000 people use Mayur Vihar-I station. Once it offers interchange facility, the ridership is expected to touch one lakh as per DMRC.

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Delhi Metro | Metro Smart Card is applicable in all buses just for name

Priyanka Sahu

22/09/2018

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has launched new to the passengers to use its ‘Metro Smart Card’ in the public transport owned by the Delhi Government to make the travel smooth and easier for the passengers. However, Delhi Metro has excluded this facility for the last mile connecting ‘Metro feeder’ buses.

The recent report was found that out of 174 buses not even a single feeder bus has the facility to purchase tickets using the metro smart card. Surprisingly, the ‘Common Mobility card’ is still a distant dream for the metro feeder buses as these buses are yet to be equipped with the ‘Electronic Ticketing Machines’.

There are currently total 174 fleets affiliated with Delhi Metro and these ply on around 42 routes. Metro has allotted four depots at Yamuna Banks, Chattarpur, Paschim Vihar West and Azadpur.

None of the buses were equipped with digital ticketing system. The conductors issued only manual tickets. No such ticketing facility is issued to us,” said a travaller.

The bus numbered with route number 307 that runs from Laxmi Nagar to Kalyanpuri.

In an another journey at West Delhi from Naraina Ring Road to Inderpuri and from Inderpuri to Todapur and Rajendra Place metro, most of the buses run on these routes do not issue tickets.

Payal Verma who travels daily from Shadipur Metro station to till Inderpuri said, “The conductors of these buses know nothing about the smart card. They even don’t give tickets even after paying. They just remember the faces of the passengers and drop them at their destination.”

Another student also shares their experience that these buses don’t give tickets and most of the time our stands get missed waiting for the conductor to give us the change. Being the smartest, DMRC should enable the smart card for its buses also.”

According to Delhi Metro, traveling up-to to 4Kms is for Rs 5.00, and from 4kms to 10 Kms it is Rs 10.00 and further above10Kms costs Rs 15.00.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has provided hand held machines to the operators. Presently, some technical issues are being faced in a few of the hand held ticketing machines which are under rectification, said DMRC.

Meanwhile, a senior officer from the Transport Department said, “It is only the Delhi Government that always thinks for the welfare of its city and people. It is shame that being the owner, the DMRC do not have the common mobility card facility. More and more, it is fun hearing that the digitized and costliest transports of our country capital do not have an ETM facility.”

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Chennai Metro | CMRL join hands wit IT firm Infosys

Priyanka Sahu

22/09/2018

Chennai: Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has joined hands with IT firm Infosys, an effort to cut down the number of cars on roads and encourage use of public transport. According to the deal, employees of Infosys will now have office buses taking them from the Alandur metro station to their facility at Mahindra World City.
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Plans are on the anvil to offer this facility to Infosys employees who work out of the Sholinganallur office.

The idea behind this initiative was to promote the use of public transportation. In the coming weeks, Infosys employees in Sholinganallur can also avail this facility. They can take the train and reach a certain point, and from there the office buses will pick them to work, said CMRL official.

Further sources also said that on Friday, a handful of employees from various points in Chennai took the Metro till the Alandur station and boarded the office bus that was waiting for them. “This pattern will continue henceforth.

‘Good plan’

An Infosys employee said that out of the Mahindra World City office, on condition of anonymity, I saw the notification very late so I could not take the Metro. But this plan seems good, considering the traffic in the city during prime hours in the morning. I live near Koyambedu, where the traffic is high and taking a train until Alandur makes sense.

Recently, Chennai Metro Rail has also struck a similar deal with DLF, Porur.

The employees take the Metro train till Alandur and then take a 14-seater van to the office.

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Metro Yatri Club launched by some like-minded metro commuters

Kanika Verma

21/09/2018

Metro Yatri Club members posing and enjoying at Red Fort.

New Delhi: About 10 like-minded metro commuters joined together and launched a common platform for metro commuters in New Delhi on 19^th September 2018. According to the information received from the main governing body of the organization, the group is named ‘Metro Yatri Club’.

The inauguration function was organized at India Gate (King’s Way) the most historical place in Delhi. Nearly about 500 people witnessed the occasion.

Metro Yatri Club is a revolutionary and fun platform for Metro commuters to come together and overcome their common issues like Commuter facilities, Fares, Lost & found, Women security etc. This club helps to overcome the daily issue of the commuters. The club provides much other fun and knowledgeable activities and some adventurous programmes for all the club member.

The club aims at raising awareness about various aspects of commuting in metro rail and bringing together commuters involved in enhancing smart mobility across metro rail networks. The club will also extend its hands for smooth operation of the metro railway in India. This club is the bond of friendship, good fellowship, and mutual understanding among the metro commuters. Here are some inauguration photographs shared by the Metro Yatri Club.

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Club Members View:
My vision behind founding Metro Yatri Club is to help metro commuters to resolve their common issues, entertain them by providing a fun platform and raise awareness about what to do or not while travelling in metro rail to keep metro operations uninterrupted and make their premises clean. – Mamta Shah (Club Founding Member)

Metro Yatri Club will help me to grow my network. I was always ambitious to join such platform which relates to my basic nature- Narendra Shah (Club Member)

I felt that there is a large gap between the metro operator and the commuters and no such platform exist here where the commuters can raise their issues with respect to their journey experience. In view of this, the Metro Yatri Club can play a vital role in connecting metro commuters with metro operators for better solutions. The club can be a revolutionary fun and awareness platform for all age group of metro commuters in near future. I am happy to join the club and help commuters to bring happiness on their face- Vinod Shah (Club Member)

One of the main reasons why I joined Metro Yatri Club was to learn a different approach to public speaking/ leadership and have the confidence to deliver that all sorts of commuters across the metro- Priyanka Sahu (Club Member)

The network in Metro Yatri Club gave me more confidence to help commuters and to tackle their day to day unresolved issues- Reeta Shah (Club Member)

It’s more fun to spend my day out with others and create exposure with most of the commuters traveling to the metro and also to have amazing photos with all the club members or willing to be the member- Himani Gupta (Club Member)

The Metro Yatri club helps commuters to enhance their interpersonal skills by organizing various small events and adventure programmes- Richa Bhateja (Club Member)

This Metro Yatri Club raises awareness about various etiquette set by metro railway operators to keep the stations, properties and other equipment and metro permisses neat and clean- Kanika Verma (Club Member)

Metro Yatri Club has an ‘Interactive’ and ‘Entertaining’ programs which encourage me to visit varied and unusual places which enhances my both experience and enjoyment- Neha Dawar (Club Member)

For more details, visitors can log on to www.metroyatriclub.com or send their queries to metroyatriclub@gmail.com

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Symbroj Media celebrates 3rd Foundation day, shares its journey towards excellence

Priyanka Sahu

21/09/2018

New Delhi, September 19, 2018: The renowned media company Symbroj Media Private Limited celebrated its 3^rd Foundation day (2nd Anniversary) in its New Delhi headquarters on 19^th September 2018. The Foundation Day celebrations began at 9.30 AM, started from Lord Ganesha Pooja later cake cutting celebration was done. Where the both founder Directors of the company Ms. Mamta Shah and Mr. Narendra Shah delivered their speech to the employees and shared their journey from inception of the Company to till and what are the challenges they face to reach to this stage.

Addressing to the employees and other stakeholders Narendra Shah, Director (Business Development) said that they have founded the company with a vision to ease the life of people in this information era and promote trending technologies. He said that Metro Rail News is one of the renowned brands of the company and currently crossed the international boundaries. Over 75000 professionals read our Metro Rail News Magazine worldwide.

Sharing achievements of the Company, Mrs. Mamta Shah, Director (Planning & Corporate Affairs) and Managing Editor of Metro Rail News said that the Company has crossed Rs.10 Lakh turnover in last financial year in a short interval of the time and growth rate of company is about 450%. The company was started in September 2016 from her residence with only two part-time visionaries and their dedication & hard work brings this company at this stage. Now our Company has well settled office with 10 regular employees and other part-timers.

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She further said that this channel of communication between employees and Director will help them stay in touch with each other much more whereby they will be able to share they day to day working experience. She also mentions that when we have started to working with very ground level, sometimes it was hard to believe what today’s is in real.

Several certificate and awards were also given to various outstanding employees and intern. Among which Ms. Kanika Verma has secured “Best Intern of the year”. A golden trophy along with appreciation certificate was given to her in recognition of her effort, dedication, passion and hard work resulting highest readership in Metro Rail News portal during the year.

Mrs. Mamta Shah and Mr. Narendra Shah presenting Award to Ms. Kanika Verma for her outstanding performance

Mr. Narendra Shah appreciates the cooperation of the entire staff member for our company. He also mentions that we all are family member here and we have to work together so that we can reach to higher platform.

Later all the company member along with directors move to India Gate for the inauguration of Metro Yatri Club which was launched by 10 like-minded commuters. This club can play a vital role for commuters travelling in metro as an open platform to share their opinion and resolve their issues with the metro operators.

Later visited to Red fort, have lots of entertainment, photography session with the entire Symbroj Media member. Meanwhile also had lunch with all other staff member.

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Hazrat Nizamuddin metro station to be a major transit hub

Priyanka Sahu

21/09/2018

Delhi Metro’s driverless trains start their operation from Thursday between Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar — Image Source: Twitter

New Delhi: The Hazrat Nizamuddin Metro station on the Majlis Park – Shiv Vihar Pink corridor of Delhi Metro’s Phase 3 will be one of the Metro network’s major transit hubs as the station would provide direct connectivity with the Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station as well as the Sarai Kale Khan Inter State Bus Terminus.

The station will have dedicated entry/exit points connecting to the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway station and the ISBT at Sarai Kale Khan. One of the entry/exit points will be within a vicinity of 50 metres from the Sarai Kale Khan ISBT. Another entry/exit will be near the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway station approximately at a distance of 150 metres.

This station will be a major boost from the point of view of connectivity as both the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway station and the Sarai Kale Khan ISBT do not have any Metro connectivity presently. The nearest Metro stations are at least 3 to 4 kilometres away. The station will also be equipped with broad staircases and escalators for the convenience of the passengers.

The famous Indraprasth Park and the upcoming Seven Wonders project will be at the walking distance from Hazrat Nizamuddin station. The Hazrat Nizamuddin Metro station also provides connectivity to the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway station as well as the Sarai Kale Khan ISBT there.

The Hazrat Nizamuddin Metro station will also have drop off bays near its three entry/exit points as per the Multi Modal Integration (MMI) plan. Adequate greening and beautification have been done around the underground station and tabletop pedestrian crossings have been provided on the roads in the vicinity for the movement of the pedestrians. The station has also been adorned by 30 artworks which portray the historical heritage of the nearby areas. Thematic impressions and ‘jharokhas’ have also been used to beautify the station.

The major challenges faced during the construction of the Hazrat Nizamuddin station was the very high water table and highly varying geotechnical conditions (varying from garbage filled top layer to good soil to sandy soil to highly weathered rock to very hard rock within the stretch of just 265 meters). Controlled blasting was also adopted to break the very hard rock.

Due to highly varying geotechnical conditions, half of the station was constructed by bottom-up approach and other half by top-down approach. The diversion of Ring Road was also a big challenge. There were innumerable power as well as Delhi Jal Board utilities (both underground and overhead) which had to be meticulously diverted so that the services rendered by these utilities did not suffer.

The Hazrat Nizamuddin is the 3rd biggest railway terminus of the national capital after New Delhi and Delhi. Most south bound trains including Rajdhani and super fast trains originate from here. The Sarai Kale Khan ISBT is one of three major bus terminuses of Delhi along with Kashmere Gate and Anand Vihar. Buses for various locations in Haryana, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh originate from here.

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Delhi Metro | New centralized online monitoring of lifts and escalators to start

Richa Bhateja

21/09/2018

escalators need to be fixed as soon as possible by Delhi Metro

New Delhi: Delhi Metro commuters often complain about escalators stop moving suddenly or remain out of use for days. Now, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is planning a centralized online monitoring of all the escalators as well as elevators, which number over 1,500 across the entire Delhi Metro network. The central command center will be notified immediately about any glitch and the concerned station control room will be intimated to fix the problem right away. Initially, it is being implemented on the 59 km long Pink Line between Majlis Park and Shiv Vihar, which is also the longest corridor of Delhi Metro.

The line covers 38 metro stations, which have 135 elevators and 215 escalators. Out of these, 56 elevators and 106 escalators are already being used by the public and the balance equipment will be made available on the opening of the other sections for revenue operation later this year, the report stated.

Anuj Dayal, Executive Director of Corporate Communications, DMRC was quoted in the report saying that in order to monitor the increased number of elevators and escalators effectively, Delhi Metro has invited bids to explore the use of technology for centralized monitoring of elevators and escalators provided on the Pink Line. He further informed that on the basis of the outcome, the future course of action shall be decided. For metro commuters, elevators and escalators are important facilities as they help commuters negotiate different levels, such as concourse, ground as well as platform at the metro stations and with the expansion of the Delhi Metro network, the numbers of elevators and escalators are increasing, he mentioned and also informed that all elevators and escalators of Phase III project were energy efficient.

Escalator at pink line metro stations. — The escalators at pink line metro stations.

While elaborating the system, Dayal said that the status, as well as fault codes, are already available individually at each elevator and escalator. The information will be taken from each equipment and using the matching communication protocol, it will be brought to the station control room. Then, the information, from each station will be sent to a central server using the communication network. Following this, the concerned officers will be authorized to access the information at the central server, which can be used to check the operational status, plan maintenance requirements and also to carry out different analysis, which shall evolve gradually over a period of time. At the command center, once a fault is detected, the station control room would be asked to fix the problem. He added that even though the process of rectification is likely to remain the same, the response shall be faster, which is likely to reduce the downtime of equipment.

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Dilip Buildcon lowest bidder for Indore Metro project

Priyanka Sahu

21/09/2018

Tenders for metro projects — Madhya Pradesh Metro photo copyrighted MPMRCL

Indore: It has emerged as the favored bidder to build a 5.3 km stretch of the upcoming metro rail system in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, said Dilip Buildcon.

The development start to come barely a month after DBL was declared the lowest bidder for the Bhopal Metro project in the state.

This current bid is to build an elevated viaduct between the ISBT flyover and Mumtaj Bag Colony, excluding the stations.

Dilip Buildcon offered to build the track for Rs 229 cr.

Even though Dilip Buildcon is lowest bidder it is not clear whether bids for contract for the construction of the metro station have been handed out or not.

The total time period for construction of elevated track will be approximate 27 months.

According to the rule government contract are awarded to the L1 or level 1 bidder unless some major discrepancy is found in the bid submitted by the participant.

The lowest bidder in the tender process is usually L1 bidders.

In 1998 the Dilip Buildicon founded, which headquarter in Bhopal and projects itself as India’s fastest growing road development company.

The Dilip Buildicon is working via two models namely EPC Projects and Toll Operation, and develops highway, city roads, culvert, bridges, irrigation, facilities, water supply, coal mining, water sanitation and sewage.

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Bangalore Metro | Security man demands riders to speak in Hindi

Darshana Shukla

21/09/2018

Bengaluru: A commuter travelling in Bangalore Metro had a rather bizarre experience. A security staff member stationed at Lalbaugh Metro Station demanded a senior IT manger to speak in Hindi with him. This was a rather ‘rude behaviour’ which caught the commuter off-guard.

The incident took place when a senior manager from well-known IT firm was travelling in metro. He was not very happy when a security staff member put up unruly demand.

The agitated commuters logged a complaint with customer care and ticketing staff as well. Going a step further he also conveyed the incident to Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) top officials.

As per the commuters, Prakash (name withheld on request) was rushing towards the metro station during rains. He was to take a train and escape from the rains. Prakash asked the security guard at the station regarding elevator. The staff in turn ordered him to only speak with him in Hindi. The demand took the traveller by surprise. This incident took place on September 15 at Bangalore Metro Station.

While speaking to Indian Express the commuter shared his experience. He was quoted as, “Brandishing his ‘lathi’ and hitting it on his own left hand, he asked me if I knew Hindi. He then told me to learn Hindi.”

Prakash felt that it is okay if the security guard was not well-versed with Kannada. He felt that the guard could have politely put up the request since Prakash can fluently speak in Hindi as well.

He also tweeted it to BMRCL Public Relations Officer U A Vasanth Rao: Can the BMRCL Security guards be polite & courteous to people? Just because I spoke in kannada – it does not mean he has to abuse and threaten me…”

His second tweet read: Have made a verbal complaint to Ticketing Staff & Customer Care person on Security guard abusive behaviour for speaking in kannada this evening. Security guard does not speak kannada or allows anyone to speak in Kannada at Metro. Is it right thing at Karnataka?”

When CPRO was asked about the incident, he said he was not aware about it. But he assured that he will find out and get back to the press.

This is not the first time such an incident has come to light. Such incidents have happened in past and BMRCL had also proposed posting on Kannada-speaking staffers across all Bangalore Metro stations.

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Mumbai Metro | Airport Metro line likely to hit roadblock

Darshana Shukla

21/09/2018

Navi Mumbai Metro (Representative Image)

Mumbai: Looks like the case of double trouble for the Airport Line. As per sources this line may hit a roadblock as well. The reason being that execution delay in the CST-Panvel elevated corridor which is likely cause a setback.

This setback will be for the proposed construction of high-speed metro by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) that will link Mumbai Airport to Navi Mumbai airport. This project is under construction.

As per the plan the high-speed metro corridor will run parallel to the CST-Panvel elevated corridor. It will begin from Mankhurd with an intersection near Nerul heading towards Navi Mumbai airport.

MMRDA official shared that Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is in the process of preparing detailed report for the project. But, if there further delay in building CST-Panvel corridor, it may hold-up construction of the proposed high-speed metro linking the airports.

The MMRDA official further added that proposed metro corridor will run parallel to the CST-Panvel elevated corridor. It will have an intersection near Nerul. They cannot construct the metro prior to construction of CST-Panvel elevated corridor. On the other hand, precise alignment is yet to be decided.

As per the plan the metro corridor is likely to begin from International Airport wherein it is expected to split its terminal with the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-3 underground corridor from where it will run underground up to Ghatkopar. From Ghatkopar, it will be elevated till Mankhurd from where additionally it will convene at the planned CST-Panvel elevated metro corridor.

According to the plan, the high-speed corridor between two airport will be operational round the clock as planned by MMRDA.

Taking into consideration that it links both the two airports it will be advantageous for those who have connecting flights from these two airports during night. But the frequency at night may not be same as that during the day.

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