The Sarita Vihar-Badarpur section of Delhi Metro will open at 8 am on Friday. The Commissioner for Metro Rail Safety R.K. Kardam had given the statutory safety clearance on Thursday, a Delhi Metro official said.
The five kilometre stretch has three elevated stations at Mohan Estate, Tughlakabad and Badarpur. The stretch will benefit the residents of Mohan Estate, Tughlakabad, Kalindi Kunj and the satellite town of Faridabad.
The footfall on the Central Secretariat-Badarpur corridor is expected to increase by another one lakh after the opening of the Sarita Vihar-Badarpur section. Currently, the total footfall on the Central Secretariat-Sarita Vihar corridor is approximately 1.25 lakhs.
Four additional standard gauge trains with a peak hour frequency of four minutes will be pressed into service, thereby increasing the total number of trains to 20 on the corridor.
The Central Secretariat-Badarpur corridor will be 20.16 km long with 16 Metro stations. T