Agla station Alexandria hain (Next station is Alexandria). That’s a possibility. After running metro trains in the national capital for the last two decades, Delhi Metro has embarked on a global journey, aggressively scouting for consultancy and construction projects abroad, including in the port city of Alexandria in Egypt. Last month, India’s first and biggest metro rail company submitted bidding documents to procure consultancy jobs for a metro rail project in Alexandria. Earlier this week, it bid to build an entire metro line in Mauritius. Three more metro networks — in Tel Aviv in Israel, Manama in Bahrain and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam — are also on its radar. In neighbouring Dhaka, where Delhi Metro has been engaged as a consultant in three routes since 2013, it is gearing up to bid for a new line. Having been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and a massive loss of revenue, Delhi Metro is looking to bolster its revenue streams from non-ticketing sources by throwing its hat in the ring for lucrative projects across the world.
