Now recharge Metro smart card online

May 10, 2013

Arpan Rai/ New Delhi

DELHI Metro commuters will now be able to recharge their smart cards online using a credit or a debit card.

In a first for Capital’s public transport, Delhi Metro managing director Mangu Singh on Thursday launched an online recharge facility for Metro cards. Commuters will be able to check and validate their recharge via a touchscreen Ticket Reader- cum- Add Value machines currently installed at 13 Metro stations.

The machines will also provide commuters with information about the balance in the smart card, last recharge details and the last five entry- exit transactions.

About a hundred such machines will be installed in the coming month, said Singh. Metro commuters can top up their smart cards through www. delhimetrorail.com and www. dmrcsmartcard.com.

Source-http://epaper.mailtoday.in

Written by ITW Editor · Filed Under Delhi, Metro Rail

UD ministry looking into panel report on Airport Metro line

April 29, 2013

By PTI | 24 Apr, 2013, 09.10PM IST

NEW DELHI: The Urban Development Ministry has begun looking into the report of the two-member inquiry committee appointed to ascertain the causes of closure of the Airport Metro line.

Sources said the committee consisting of Additional Secretary D Diptivilasa and then Additional Member (Works) in the Railway Board A K Gupta presented its findings in a 103- page report along with 119 pages of annexures to Urban Development Secretary Sudhir Krishna from where it has been sent to Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath’s office.

Sources said the committee has found certain lapses on the part of different stakeholders including officials of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), a consultant and one of the contractors associated with the project besides the concessionaire which was operating the line.

“The committee has submitted its report and all I can say at this moment is that presently it is under examination in the ministry,” Krishna said when asked.

The Delhi Airport Metro Private Limited had to stop operations of the line on July 8, 2012 following serous defects which could even have endangered passenger safety.

Source-http://economictimes.indiatimes.com

Written by ITW Editor · Filed Under Infrastructure, Metro Rail, Urban Development