will be opened for public use on Thursday. The station — the only one
on the line which was not operational — got the mandatory clearance
from commissioner of Metro rail safety (CMRS) after an inspection on
Wednesday.
The Metro station has been granted the necessary clearances for
commencement of commuter operations. ''The Chattarpur Metro station is
going to be operational from Thursday,'' the spokesperson added. It
couldn't be opened with the Qutub-Huda City Centre section in June
this year due to land acquisition problems. The construction of the
station started on October last year and was completed in a record
time of just nine months.
''The station was constructed using a unique method using special
prefabricated/structural steel. The conventional construction
technique of making stations by concrete would have taken at least two
years, which would have delayed the Metro line substantially,'' the
spokesperson added. The above procedure, however, cost an additional
30 to 50% expense to the DMRC.
The station will also have the largest parking area at any Metro
station in the city. The parking lot has been built over an area of
about 12,000sqm. From Thursday, about 4,000sqm of parking area will be
available with the capacity of 800 two wheelers and 200 cars. The rest
of the parking area will be opened in a phased manner.
Meanwhile, the CMRS is inspecting Delhi Metro's Central
Secretariat-Gurgaon section on Monday and Tuesday. The line will be
operational by next week. ''The CMRS, R K Kardam, is planning to
inspect the Central Secretariat-Qutab Minar Metro corridor on August
30 and 31. The line will be opened for use as soon as it gets the
necessary safety clearances,'' said a DMRC spokesperson. The 12.53-km
stretch has nine Metro stations at Udyog Bhawan, Race Course, Jorbagh,
INA, AIIMS, Green Park, Hauz Khas, Malviya Nagar and Saket.
With the opening of this missing link in Line 2, the entire
Jehangirpuri to Huda City Centre stretch will become the longest
straight Metro line in the city. The construction of the line is over
and trains trials have been on for a few months now.
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