NEW DELHI : Civil work on a small stretch of non-operational segment on the Delhi Metro's Pink Line has been completed, thus physically bridging the long-standing gap on the 58 km-long corridor, official sources said on Friday.
The Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor or the Pink Line spans 38 stations. However, a small portion in east Delhi's Trilokpuri area had proved a bottleneck for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) authorities for a long time due to which the line remained disjointed for some distance there.
The gap in the line was expected to be plugged by September 2020, but it had got delayed due to repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, sources had said October last, adding that the total length of the stretch which "remains