Delhi Metro Magenta Line: All you need to know

To provide an alternative route for connecting the Noida region with western Delhi via south Delhi, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) planned the Magenta Line between Botanical Garden in Noida and Janakpuri in Delhi. Both of these stations were already connected via the Delhi Metro Blue Line. As a result, the Magenta Line metro took over the excessive load from the Blue Line route by providing a faster way of getting across the NCR, without crossing central Delhi and the congested nodes of Rajiv Chowk and Mandi House.

Delhi Metro Magenta Line stations

The Magenta Line Delhi Metro route starts from Botanical Garden in Noida and ends at Janakpuri West, in west Delhi. There are 25 metro stations on this operational route, out of which 10 are elevated and the remaining are underground. The total length of this stretch is 38 kms. Under the Delhi Metro Phase 4, the Magenta Line will be further extended to RK Ashram, providing an interchange for the Blue Line. The extension is expected to become operational by 2023-24.

Magenta Line Metro route : Currently operational section

• Janakpuri West (Interchange with Blue Line)
• Dabri Mor
• Dashrathpuri
• Palam
• Sadar Bazar Cantonment
• IGI Airport Terminal 1
• Shankar Vihar
• Munirka
• RK Puram
• IIT Delhi
• Hauz Khas (Interchange with Yellow Line)
• Panchsheel Park
• Chirag Delhi
• Greater Kailash
• Nehru Enclave
• Kalkaji Mandir (Interchange with Violet Line)
• Okhla NSIC
• Sukhdev Vihar
• Jamia Millia Islamia
• Okhla Vihar
• Jasola Vihar
• Kalindi Kunj
• Okhla Bird Sanctuary
• Botanical Garden (Interchange with Blue Line)

Magenta Line route : Under-construction extension

• RK Ashram (Interchange with Blue Line)
• Nami Karim
• Sadar Bazar
• Pul Bangash (Interchange with Red Line)
• Subzi Mandi
• Shakti Nagar Chowk
• Derawal Nagar
• Ashok Vihar
• Azadpur (Interchange with Pink Line)
• Majlis Park (Interchange with Pink Line)
• Bhalswa Lake
• Mukarba Chowk
• Haiderpur Badli Mor (Interchange with Yellow Line)
• North Pitampura
• Prashant Vihar
• Madhuban Chowk (Interchange with Red Line)
• Deepali Chowk
• Pushpanjali
• West Enclave
• Mangolpuri
• Peeragarhi (Interchange with Green Line)
• Paschim Vihar
• Keshopur
• Krishna Park Extension
• Janakpuri West (Interchange with Blue Line)

See also: All you need to know about the DMRC metro rail network

Magenta Line timeline

December 2016: Initial target for completion but this was delayed due to tunneling work.

August 2017: Trials begin on the route.

December 25, 2017: Magenta Line opens between Botanical Garden and Kalkaji Mandir.

May 28, 2018: Magenta Line opens between Kalkaji Mandir to Janakpuri West.

Interesting facts about Magenta Line

• The Magenta Line is the first driverless metro in India.
• The Janakpuri West metro station has the tallest escalator with a vertical height of 15 metres.
• It was on the Magenta Line, where, for the first time, two parallel tunnels were constructed simultaneously. This was at the Dabri Mor station.
• Shankar Vihar is the only Delhi Metro station where free movement is restricted by the military. This is because it falls in the Delhi Cantonment area.
• The Hauz Khas station on the Magenta Line and the Yellow Line is the deepest metro station at a depth of 32 metres.

How Magenta Line has impacted the real estate market

The Magenta Line connects two distant nodes of the national capital region, which were already connected earlier via the Blue Line Delhi Metro. However, the Magenta Line follows a different route, via posh pockets of south Delhi, such as Panchsheel Park, Greater Kailash, Hauz Khas and so on. While the prices are already on the higher end and the supply is mostly saturated with bungalows and kothis giving way to independent floors, the Magenta Line basically gave a push to connectivity in its neighbouring areas, which gets spillover demand from these localities. Once extended towards RK Ashram, north Delhi will have better connectivity to the western region, which is mostly untouched, so far.

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