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Essay On Delhi Metro

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Delhi Metro is a rail system which is serving capital of india and its nearby cities as well as other NCR (National Capital Region). Delhi Metro is providing very good service so that it was ranked second among all other metro system in the world. DMRC official says,this survey done from the commuters of those metro rail systems by Global Metro Benchmarking Groups NOVA and CoMET. In that survey London DLR Bangkok and DMRC were the best three performers in the Net Promoters Score (NPS) category.
Delhi Metro have very large network so that it was on 15 rank in the world in terms of length and it was also ranked twelveth in terms of huge number of stations. This metro system is member of a group called Nova Group of Metros. Delhi Metro is ranked third in terms of public transport in India (after the Kolkata Metro and Chennai MRTS) and first latest fast transport system. Till the month of june of 2015, the rail system network have five colour-coded regular lines (Red, …show more content…

The trains are usually of four and six coaches, but due to increase in the number of passengers, eight-coach trains are added on the Yellow Line (Jahangirpuri to HUDA city centre) and Blue line (Dwarka Sector-21 to Noida City Centre/Vaishali). Yellow line being the first one with eight coach trains. The power output is supplied by 25-kilovolt, 50-hertzalternating current through overhead catenary.
The metro has an average daily ridership of 2.4 million commuters, and, as of August 2010, had already carried over 1.25 billion commuters since its inception.[18]The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has been certified by the United Nations as the first metro rail and rail-based system in the world to get "carbon credits for reducing greenhouse gas emissions" and helping in reducing pollution levels in the city by 630,000 tonnes every

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