Bus and metro services to start early morning on polling day in Delhi

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi 

Bus and will start early morning to help voters cast their votes in on Sunday.

The Transport Corporation (DTC) has decided to run its services from 4 am on Sunday, a DTC said.

The will be available on 35 major routes across the city, he said.

The Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) services will also begin from 4 am on the polling day.

However, trains on the Blue Line, going from Dwarka Sector 21 towards Vaishali and Noida, will begin operations at 4.30 am.

The Delhi Metro starts functioning from 6 am on normal days.

"On the day of the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi on Sunday, May 12, the Delhi Metro on all lines will start from 4 am, so that the staff deployed for election duty can avail the facility," the DMRC said in a statement.

The trains will run with a frequency of 30 minutes on all the lines till 6 am. Later, metro trains will run as per the normal Sunday timetable throughout the day, it said.

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First Published: Fri, May 10 2019. 17:16 IST