Delhi Metro Rail
Essay No. 01
Before some time, people in the national capital Delhi used to curse the public transport system. Badly behaved, irresponsible, and rash bus drivers, showing no sign of courtesy even to the women and elders, made traveling a painfully and scary task.
It was difficult to tell whether the bus would stop to pick up the waiting passengers and whether it would reach the destination on time. The usual fear of long traffic jams owing to processions, the overall condition of the buses with torn and uncomfortable seats, over-crowding inside and the rattling sound of the engine forced people to desire an alternative transport system.
The physical construction work on the Delhi Metro Rail started on 1st October 1998. The first line of the Delhi Metro Rail was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, on 24th December 2002. With the arrival of metro rail traveling within the city became noiseless, joyful, exciting, fast, dust-free, and completely dependable. There is no fear of being late to work or clothes getting dirty while travelling.
One can travel in the comfort of air-conditioned coaches, while the information about the stops is continuously communicated on the intercom. While on the move in the metro, one can enjoy the outside view making lives comfortable and satisfying.
Travelling in Delhi Metro is of great pride. It has improved the health of people by making traveling stress-free and fast. This new system of train transportation called Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) was started in collaboration with Japan. With the completion of Phase-I, Phase II, and the beginning of operations on Phase III, the Delhi Metro network comprises six lines plus the Airport Express line, serving 140 metro stations with 6 more stations on the Airport Express line, for a total of 146. It operates on a total route length of 193 kilometers.
The cities of New Delhi, Old Delhi, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Noida, and Faridabad are served by this metro system. Delhi Metro is the world’s 13th largest metro system in terms of length and a member of Nova Group of Metros. Moreover, it is India’s 3rd urban rapid transportation system, after the Kolkata Metro and Chennai’s Mass Rapid Transit System. It is India’s 1st modern rapid transit system too.
The popularity of this great blessing can be known from the fact that it provides commutation to more than half a million passengers daily. Its completion and acceptance by people make India proud. Moreover, it shows that India is capable of achieving great feats.
Essay No. 02
Delhi Metro Railway
The word Metro is used for the railways all over the world. Metro railway is a pollution-free intra-city means for travelling short and long distances. Kolkata was the first city in our country to use this service of Metro Railways.
In metropolitan cities like Delhi, where millions of people inhabit, life is very hectic. Today pollution is the greatest menace to mankind and city roads have become a virtual hell for there are 12,000 buses, 50,000 auto-rickshaws, and many other vehicles also. Moreover, the transport facilities in Delhi were not up to the mark. So to solve this problem to some extent Metro Railway Project has been undertaken in Delhi. Delhi’s people themselves own a large number of personal vehicles which emit lots of smoke, thereby increasing the pollution in the atmosphere. So, the Metro Railway Project was started in Delhi.
In the initial phase, the Metro Railways chose the junction from Tri-Nagar to Tees Hazari, which is now complete, and commuting between the Tri-Nagar and Tees Hazari has become a regular thing, Government is taking every possible step to complete other Metro Rail Protects also as soon as possible.
Although there are many features of the Metro Rail Service, two are worth mentioning. For the first time in India not only healthy people but blind people also have a comfortable walk to and from the Metro rail, for Braille Block have been made on all the Metro Platforms for making it handicapped friendly.
Another unique feature of Metro Railway is that all coaches are equipped with emergency buttons with a “talk back” facility with the driver of the train. In case of eve-teasing, a woman can press this button and talk to the driver, in which case the driver can immediately seal the door of that particular coach. Thus by the sealing of doors! of the coach, it becomes impossible for the culprit to escape. The driver will then contact the central control room for police help and the door will only be opened when the police reach the spot to arrest the culprit. Metro also has a panel of good doctors on duty near all the stations in case of emergency.
Thus, in a metropolitan city like Delhi, Metro Railways is a great convenience for the masses.
Essay No. 03
Delhi Metro
A project that is now sure to change the existing state of transport in the capital, Delhi Metro is not a new or even recent idea for Indians. In fact, the idea was brought into consideration about some fifty years back, but the bureaucratic red-tapism made it take such a long period to come into reality. However, on December 26, 2002, the people of Delhi got the first ride in this much-awaited dream train.
Delhi Metro’s first phase has been completed. And, with this, the DMRC (Delhi Metro Rail Corporation) can claim to provide transport to two million passengers every day with a train at every third minute. In its first phase, the Delhi Metro is operational between Shahdara and Tis Hazari stations with four other stations in between. The Metro is on, and the people are happy with the service it is rendering. After all, now they have an alternative to the suffocatingly packed blue line buses and the inadequate service of the D.T.C.-run C.N.G. buses. With the Metro option, the passengers are not only saved from the inconvenience of road transport, but they also experience world-class service at very affordable fares. It is really pleasing to note that a passenger can reach from Tis Hazari to Shahdara in just fourteen minutes by spending as much money as he would spend through a bus.
Thus, while it saves the passengers from the trouble of road transport and provides a much more reliable service to reach places in time, it does not bother the commuter of any extra expenditure. Another outstanding feature of the metro is that it is particularly useful for our handicapped brethren. The construction work of the Delhi Metro is on at a considerable pace and it is hoped that the people of other areas in Delhi will soon be able to avail of this amazingly comfortable train service. It is foreseen by many that at the completion of this dream project, Delhi will have a better train facility than even Japan and North Korea, the countries which have provided the present metro trains to India. With the successful completion and operation of its first phase, the above assumption does not seem to be any far from reality.
