Rail Analysis India May Digital Edition 2018 | Page 36
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Hauz Khas to emerge as vital Metro hub
The Hauz Khas Metro station has been turned into an
interchange station to facilitate interconnectivity between
the HUDA City Centre – Samaypur Badli (Line 2) and the
Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden Metro corridors.
The passengers coming from Gurugram on Line 2 will be able
to get down at Hauz Khas and take a direct train to Botanical
Garden in NOIDA. Through this connectivity, the travelling
time between Gurugram and NOIDA will be brought down by
at least half an hour. After the inauguration of this vital link,
the approximate time to commute between HUDA City Centre
and Botanical Garden will be about 50 minutes. Presently, a
Metro journey from HUDA
Phase 3 progress details :
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Phase 3 network opened so far: 62 kilometres
Sl. No
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Corridors opened
Kilometres
1 Central Secretariat – Kashmere Gate
9.37
2 Badarpur – Escorts Mujesar 13.975
3 Jahangirpuri – Samaypur Badli 4.489
4 Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus – Majlis Park 21.56
5 Botanical Garden – Kalkaji Mandir 12.64
City Centre to Botanical Garden in NOIDA takes about one
and a half hours with the interchange at Rajiv Chowk. There
will be paid area to paid area connectivity between the new
and the old Hauz Khas stations.
West Delhi Connect
The Janakpuri West Metro station on the Dwarka – NOIDA
Metro corridor (Line 3) has also been converted into an
Phase 3 kilometres after the opening of this section: 87 kilometres
Phase 3 network yet to be opened after the opening of this section: 72 kilometres (Excluding NOIDA – Greater
NOIDA section)
Sl. No
Corridors to be opened
Kilometres
1 Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus – Shiv Vihar
9.37
2 Mundka – Bahadurgarh 13.975
3 Noida City Centre – Electronic City 4.489
4 Dwarka – Najafgarh 21.56
5 Escorts Mujesar – Ballabhgarh 12.64
Dilshad garden – New Bus Adda
Connectivity highlights :
The opening of the Janakpuri West – Kalkaji Mandir section
of the Delhi Metro will immensely improve the connectivity
of the national capital. With the opening of this corridor west
Delhi, south Delhi and the satellite city of NOIDA will get
interconnected like never before. The entire Magenta Line
from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden will be served by
four interchange stations –
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Janakpuri West ( with Blue Line )
Hauz Khas ( With Yellow Line )
Kalkaji Mandir ( with Violet Line )
Botanical Garden ( with Blue Line )
The main connectivity highlights will be as follows:
interchange station to provide additional connectivity to areas
in south Delhi and NOIDA from west Delhi.
The interchange station will be the first station of the Janakpuri
West – Botanical Garden corridor of Phase 3 which will
connect Line 3 with important locations such as the Terminal
1 of the IGI Airport, Munirka, Hauz Khas, Nehru Place and
Botanical Garden in NOIDA.
The entire Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden corridor will
also act as a feeder for the presently operational Line 3
as both the originating stations of this corridor – Janakpuri
West and Botanical Garden are important stations of Line
3. This new line will, therefore, significantly help in reducing
congestion on Line 3 as well as the Rajiv Chowk Metro station
as the journey from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden by
both the corridors will almost take the same time.
Improved connectivity for IT Hub Nehru Place
Nehru Place, a locality in south Delhi, which houses one of
India’s largest information technology markets, already has
a Metro station, on the Kashmere Gate – Escorts Mujesar
corridor of the Delhi Metro network.
Now, Nehru Enclave, the new Metro station, on the Janakpuri
West – Botanical Garden corridor will directly connect the
area with the satellite town of NOIDA in Uttar Pradesh, the
domestic terminal of the Indira Gandhi International Airport as
well as tremendously reduce travel time to other prominent
locations of NCR such as Gurgaon.
Domestic Airport to be on the Metro Network
The domestic terminals of the Indira Gandhi Airport are also
going to get Metro connectivity in Phase 3. The presently
operational Airport Express Link provides Metro connectivity
to the new T3 terminal of the Airport from which all international
carriers and all premium domestic airlines fly.
However, there is no Metro connectivity for the domestic
terminals from which the low cost operators fly. The station
will help the domestic passengers in a major way. Let us take
a look:
• From South Delhi : Direct connectivity from
• Kalkaji
• Nehru Place
• Hauz Khas
• Munirka etc.
• From East Delhi: Passengers coming from
• Vaishali ( Ghaziabad )
• Anand Vihar
• Lakshmi Nagar etc can take Line 3 and 4 and change
at Janakpuri West.
• From West Delhi: Passengers coming from Punjabi
Bagh, NS Place etc can take the new Majlis Park –
Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus corridor, change at
Rajouri Garden, then take Line 3 and reach Janakpuri
West to avail the services on this corridor.
• From North and Central Delhi: Passengers coming from
Vishwavidyalaya and Central Delhi areas can take Line
2, reach Hauz Khas and board the train to the Terminal
1 – IGI Airport.
• From NOIDA: Direct connectivity from Botanical Garden
in NOIDA (Approx 35 minutes from Botanical Garden).
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