Delhi Metro enteRs into contract with consortium

Delhi Metro has entered into a contract with a consortium for executing the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) along with an upgrade of the complete ecosystem consisting of Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) system which will also enable travel through QR tickets, Account-Based Ticketing and Near Field Communications (NFC) Media.

In a big impetus to the Centre’s ‘One Nation One Card Policy’, the contract agreement for this AFC work for the three priority corridoRs (Janakpuri West – RK Ashram Marg, Majlis Park – Maujpur and Tughalakabad – Aerocity) under Phase-IV and upgradation of existing (operational) Phase-I, II, and III AFC system were awarded to a Consortium of M/S Revenue Collection Systems (Thales), France SAS and M/S Paytm Payments Bank Limited, a senior DMRC official said.