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After 171-day Covid hiatus, Delhi Metro's Blue Line and Pink Line resumed services with curtailed operation timings on Wednesday.
Timings
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Passengers travel in a metro train after the metro services resume on Blue line with certain restrictions, in New Delhi. Photo: PTI
Trains will operate in the batches of four-hour each from 7-11 AM in the morning and 4-8 PM in the evening in the first stage.
Backgrounder
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Passengers travelling in a metro train on Pink line in New Delhi. Photo: PTI
The Ministry of Home Affairs recently issued guidelines allowing the Delhi Metro to resume operations in a graded manner, following which the DMRC had said it would be done in three stages from September 7-12.
Under stage one, Yellow Line or Line 2 and Rapid Metro were made operational with restricted service hours -- 7-11 AM and 4-8 PM.
Passengers in numbers
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A passenger wearing face mask while travelling in a metro train on Blue line. Photo: PTI
While nearly 15,500 passengers availed the Yellow Line and Rapid Metro combined on Monday, the figures stood at nearly 17,600 on Tuesday.
Slew of measures
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A metro train arrives at a platform. Photo: PTI
In keeping with the new normal, the Delhi Metro took a slew of measures to ensure least physical contact for riders, like automated thermal screening-cum-sanitiser dispenser and lift-calling system driven by a foot pedal at several stations.
Some ridders worried about risks but said they had no other option.