New Delhi, Feb 3 (PTI) Delhi Metro will start its operation on all lines from their terminal stations at 4 am on voting and counting day in order to facilitate the staff deployed for election duty, a statement said on Monday.
The trains will run with a frequency of 30 minutes on all the lines till 6 am. After 6 am, regular metro trains services will run throughout the day, it said.
The Delhi Police has also made elaborate traffic arrangements aiming to ease the voting experience for the general public and voters.
“On the day of Assembly election in Delhi on February 5 and the vote counting day on February 8, Delhi Metro train services on all lines will start from their terminal stations at 4 am so that the staff deployed for election duty can avail the facility,” the DMRC statement said.
In addition, to facilitate the polling officials/staff returning late after election duty, the last metro services on all lines will be also extended on the intervening night of February 5 and 6, it said.
The time has been extended from 11 pm to 12 pm on the Red Line. It will be 11 pm to 11.30 pm on the Yellow Line’s sector from Millennium City Centre Gurugram to Samaypur Baldi, and from 11 pm to 11.45 on Samaypur Baldi to Millennium City Centre Gurugram.
The timing on the Blue Line will be extended till 11.50 pm, while the timing has been extended to 12 am on the Violet Line and 1 am, it added.
Additional Commissioner of Police (traffic zone 2) Dinesh Kumar Gupta said that to facilitate voters to reach polling booths during the elections, Delhi traffic police (zone-II) has made proper deployment on roads, including providing parking facilities at polling centres of Dwarka, Bijwasan, Vikaspuri, Uttam Nagar, Matiala, Palam, Rajouri Garden, Tilak Nagar, Janakpuri, Rajender Nagar, Sultanpur Majra, Devli, Mehrauli, Chhattarpur, Sangam Vihar, Ambedkar Nagar, Jangpura, Kalka ji, Tughlakabad and Okhla having 10 or more polling booths. PTI NIT AS AS
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