New Delhi: The Delhi Metro on Friday entered its 20th year of operations, marking the occasion with the field trials of the first-ever indigenously developed signalling technology, and launching an exhibition on “Tracing Delhi Metro’s Journey” at Kashmere Gate Metro station.
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had inaugurated the first ever Metro corridor — spanning 8.2 kilometre from Shahdara to Tis Hazari — in the national capital on December 24 in 2002.
Union housing and urban affairs secretary Durga Shanker Mishra inaugurated the exhibition on Friday. “The station has been redeveloped into a full-fledged exhibition with priceless photographs and anecdotes which shall take the visitors on a ride down the memory lane of that historic day which ignited a new revolution in India’s mass transit history. This shall be a permanent exhibition and the passengers using Delhi Metro network’s largest interchange facility shall be able to visit this exhibition without any additional cost,” said Anuj Dayal, executive director, corporate communications, DMRC.
