G20 Summit: Passengers can neither enter nor exit these metro stations.
The 18th G20 Summit might be held on the newly constructed Bharat Mandapam at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi subsequent week. Authorities within the nationwide capital have been making intensive preparations to welcome delegates from the world over that may embrace over 25 heads of state and world establishment leaders.
To make sure the sleek functioning of the summit, Delhi Police has additionally issued orders for the motion of the Delhi Metro. The gates of some metro stations will stay closed as a consequence of safety causes from September 8 to 10 when India might be internet hosting the G20 Summit.
Based on the order issued by the police, site visitors might be utterly shut off at Moti Bagh, Bhikaji Cama Place, Munirka, RK Puram, IIT, and Sadar Bazar Cantonment metro stations. Passengers can neither enter nor exit these metro stations.
In the meantime, the police have stored Dhaula Kuan, Khan Market, Janpath, Supreme Court docket, and Bhikaji Cama Place metro stations on the record of delicate locations. Together with this, the Supreme Court docket Metro Station, the closest station to the venue, will stay utterly closed.
Apart from the desired gates, the Delhi Metro will proceed to function usually.
Passengers going in direction of the Delhi airport from the night time of the seventh to the night of the eleventh of September have been suggested to make use of the metro.
Earlier, the Delhi Metro introduced that they are going to be promoting ‘Tourist Smart Cards’ via devoted counters at 36 stations from September 4-13.
These ‘Vacationer Sensible Playing cards’ can be found on common days too, however in view of the G20 Summit, devoted counters have been opened which might begin promoting these playing cards for a interval of 10 days beginning Monday, a senior official stated.
The 36 stations the place these playing cards might be offered via devoted counters embrace — Kashmere Gate, Chandni Chowk, Chawri Bazar, New Delhi, Rajiv Chowk, Patel Chowk, Central Secretariat, Udyog Bhawan, Lok Kalyan Marg and Supreme Court docket metro stations.
In the meantime, Delhi traffic police have additionally launched an in depth advisory on the site visitors motion within the nationwide capital. The official assertion revealed that each one site visitors restrictions will come into impact from the night time of September 7 and stay in place until September 11.