Delhi Metro’s Pink and Magenta line commuters likely to witness fewer call drops

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Customers who use the south Delhi stretch of the magenta line that is Botanical Garden-Janakpuri West can take a sigh of relief, as the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is likely to address the problem of poor and frequent call drops. DMRC has already provided space for mobile towers in many locations to improve the perennial problem of poor cell phone connectivity. Around 100 towers have come up along the busy Blue Line corridor (Dwarka-Noida City Centre/Vaishali) and Yellow Line (Samaypur Badli-HUDA City Centre), according to a report in The Times of India.

The licensing of these spaces will help DMRC boost its non-operational revenue. It will be providing mobile coverage on the station premises and its periphery for commuters using the urban rail network.

Mobile towers at metro stations

The DMRC has planned that it will license space for telecom towers at 20 more locations. This will include 15 metro stations and 5 train depots. The metro stations that are included in the plan would mostly be the Magenta Line stations Vasant Vihar, Jamia Millia Islamia, Okhla Vihar, Okhla Bird Sanctuary, Kalkaji Mandir, Dashrath Puri and the Kalindi Kunj train depot.

Rithala-Shaheed Sthal New Bus Adda, the oldest corridor of the Red Line will see mobile towers coming up at the busy stations at Kashmere Gate, Tis Hazari, Netaji Subhash Place and Dilshad Garden, apart from the Shastri Park train depot.

Blue Line’s RK Ashram Marg station and Supreme Court (Pragati Maidan) station, apart from the Yamuna Bank train depot I and depot II and the Najafgarh train depot will also see the installation of the towers.

Violet Line’s two stations (Kashmere Gate-Ballabhgarh)- Raja Nahar Singh and Sant Surdas (Sihi), and the Badli depot of Yellow Line will also get the towers.

Approximately 8 square metres of a plot at each location will be used by DMRC to erect the telecom towers.