{"id":491873,"date":"2022-05-17T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=491873"},"modified":"2022-05-17T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:54:30","slug":"78-commuters-use-smart-card-says-delhi-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/78-commuters-use-smart-card-says-delhi-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"78% commuters use smart card, says Delhi Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Sunday said smart card usage in the Delhi Metro network has seen a significant surge this year with around 78% of its commuters using such cards for commuting by Metro since January, compared to around 70% smart card users during pre-Covid times.<\/p>\n<p>DMRC officials said additional discounts on journeys through the smart card and dedicated exit gates for smart cards have made them a more viable option for daily commuters as compared to tokens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn an average, around 10-12,000 Metro smart cards are being sold each day. The DMRC also has the provision of dedicated exit gates for smart card users at a majority of the Metro stations,\u201d said Anuj Dayal, principal executive director, corporate communications, DMRC. \u201cIn addition, a flat 10% discount is provided on each journey and additional 10% discount is provided if a commuter undertakes a journey by entering the Metro system during defined off-peak hours,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Sunday said smart card usage in the Delhi Metro network has seen a significant surge this year with around 78% of its commuters using such cards for commuting by Metro since January, compared to around 70% smart card users during pre-Covid times. DMRC officials said additional discounts on journeys through the smart card and dedicated exit gates for smart cards have made them a more viable option for daily commuters as compared to tokens. \u201cOn an average, around 10-12,000 Metro smart cards are being sold each day. The DMRC also has the provision [&hellip;]<\/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-491873","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\/491873","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=491873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}