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 \u201cTracing Delhi Metro\u2019s Journey\u201d at Kashmere Gate Metro station.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Union housing and urban affairs secretary Durga Shanker Mishra inaugurated the exhibition on Friday. \u201cThe 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\u2019s mass transit history. This shall be a permanent exhibition and the passengers using Delhi Metro network\u2019s largest interchange facility shall be able to visit this exhibition without any additional cost,\u201d said Anuj Dayal, executive director, corporate communications, DMRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 \u201cTracing Delhi Metro\u2019s Journey\u201d 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. \u201cThe station has been redeveloped into a full-fledged exhibition with priceless photographs and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}