SEE PICS! Metro services resume after being shut for 169 days due to coronavirus

Delhi Metro, which was closed for more than five months due to the covid-19 epidemic, is once again ready to resume its services in three phases from Monday.

However, it has appealed to the people to use the service only when it is urgently needed.

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) officials said on Sunday that stations located in prohibited areas would remain closed.

Officials had also warned earlier that “trains cannot be stopped at some stations” if passengers do not follow the rules of social distance.

Officials said that the service of the Delhi Metro would be restored in a phased manner in three phases from September 7 to 12.

The Yellow Line and Rapid Metro connecting Delhi’s Samaypur Badli with Huda City Center in Gurugram will be operational on September 7.

He informed that in the first phase trains will run from 7 am to 11 am and from 4 pm to 8 pm in the evening.

DMRC said in a statement released on Sunday that due to the epidemic, metro services in Delhi-NCR have been closed since March 22.

Now services will be restored after a gap of 169 days.

Only operations on the Yellow Line will be restored this Monday and Tuesday,” the statement said.

Restoring Metro operations on Noida-Greater Noida route under ‘Unlock-4’, the first Metro train for Greater Noida was operated from Sector-51 Metro Station at 7 am on Monday. NMRC Metro Security Additional Superintendent of Police Ram Mohan Singh said

A Kochi Metro spokesperson said train services between Thaikudam and Aluva were resumed at 7 a.m. following Covid-19 guidelines. He said that the trains would run at intervals of 10-10 minutes between 7 and 9 in the morning. A half of Kochi Metro

Delhi Metro has developed an automatic thermal screening-cum-sanitizer dispenser and a foot pedal-powered lift.

Metro rail service were restored in Bengaluru on Monday after being closed for more than five months due to the lockdown imposed in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The first metro trains departed from Bayyappana Halli metro station to Mysore Road at