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New Delhi: Delhi Metro aim was to provide facility to commuters with affordable prices. From last few months Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is continuously increasing fare by which its main motive of public services remain just for the name. Fare hikes need to be done for the maintenance of metro, statement given by Union Urban Affairs minister Hardeep Sing Puri, but the reason behind it is completely different. Delhi Metro has always remain silent when it comes to fare hike, employees salary issue, Rs 4000 crore scam on Airport Line project, Khyber Pass depot land scam, property business scam, poor infrastructure in Mundka staff quarters etc. Recentally   Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has demanded a CBI inquiry, in the airport metro rail line reason behind its termination of the concession agreement of Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Ltd (DAMEPL). There is no report for Rs 4000 crore which was allotted for this line. Actually there was a loopholes in the bas...

New Delhi:   On the occasion of inauguration of extension of Green Line from Mundka to Bahadurgarh  of Delhi Metro . on 24 June Prime minister approves the proposal to set up committee to lay down standards for metro rail systems in the country. The committee will be headed by E. Sreedharan, who is also known as Metro Man of India. From 1995-2012, E. Sreedharan has served as Managing Director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). Earlier this he worked as Indian Engineering Officer (IES). He has given new shape to metro transport for India. Prime Minister said that, government’s priority was to build convenient, comfortable and affordable urban transport systems. Further he said that, “Our government has brought out a policy relating to metros. This is because we felt aspects relating to metro systems need greater coherence and work as per a basic set of standards," he said in his address. Government wanted to boost "Make in India" initiative by making metro coac...

New Delhi:   Delhi Metro has achieved a lot even it is has biggest extending network in India. In the history of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation by an eight years there was no fare hike was done but sudden fare rises in 2017 has reduce the number of commuter. Does DMRC aim to provide transport facility to common people of Delhi with fewer prices than private vehicles? Now it has become a big dispute that metro charges are equal or even more than private vehicle. [caption id="attachment_14645" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Delhi Metro Passenger reduced after Fare hike[/caption] The increase in fares of the Delhi Metro has decreased the number of passengers in the metro. According to information from RTI, five lakh passengers stopped traveling every day in the metro. There has been a lot of decline in the earnings of the metro due to not being able to travel so many. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also stand against the fare hike of Delhi Metro . The...

Metro fares have been doubled in just four months, forcing me to give up my favourite mode of transport and take to crowded DTC buses. Besides putting the new fares beyond my budget, I have also been stripped of the safety of travelling in the metro. And I am not the only one. Somrita Ghosh, IANS Correspondent and Author My biggest shock came two days after the latest metro fare hike . I commute daily between Green Park in south Delhi and Noida Sector 16 where I work. As I punched my smart card while leaving the Sector 16 station, my heart skipped a beat – Rs 37 had been deducted from my card. By the time I reached my office, the mental calculation was already done. I realised every month I would have to spend double of what I was shelling out only five months ago if I wanted to use the Delhi Metro . When the year began, I was spending Rs 18 on my metro ride – one way. The metro then hiked the fares and my one-way cost shot up to Rs 27. The latest hike had taken it...

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Monday refused to defer metro fare hike despite Delhi chief minister Kejriwal’s opposition to it. The board members discussed Kejriwal’s proposal but decided to go ahead with recommendations of Fare Fixation Committee (FCC), to be... Click here to see more https://goo.gl/LLXTYn

New Delhi: Travelling by Delhi Metro will cost more from October 1 as the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will kick in the second phase of fare hike. The DMRC had revised its fares in May this year. The fare hike would only be felt by October 3 as October 1 is a Sunday and October 2 is... Click here to see more https://goo.gl/WBmrTo

New Delhi: Ahead of Delhi University Student Union (DUSU) election, scores of members of the Left-affiliate All India Students Association (AISA) took out a rally titled " DU demands " in the University"s North Campus on Tuesday. Demanding a violence free campus, hostel facility and metro concessional passes , the students submitted a memorandum under their campaign " Hinsa Nahi Hostel Chahiye, Fare Hike Nahi Metro Pass Chahiye ." The memorandum had 20,000 signatures of students across colleges and was presented to the Vice Chancellor. Kawalpreet Kaur, President of DU AISA said, "In a country where more than 80% belong to the lower income group, quality and affordable education to all has to be the biggest priority for any model of development. But other than constructing more universities on those lines we must also focus on DU. On the one hand, DU is being made unaffordable to common students, and on the other, it is becoming a hub of hooliganism."...