India’s 1st Ring Metro Inaugurated in Delhi: All You Need To Know

Delhi Metro’s Pink Line has now become the country’s first operational Ring Metro after the inauguration of the Majlis Park–Maujpur-Babarpur section. The new stretch completes a loop around large parts of the national capital, allowing commuters to travel across multiple parts of the city without needing to enter the central interchange stations.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for development projects worth around Rs 33,500 crore in the national capital. The projects include new metro corridors, housing redevelopment and major infrastructure upgrades aimed at improving connectivity and urban infrastructure in Delhi.

The prime minister inaugurated two key corridors of the Delhi Metro — the Majlis Park–Maujpur-Babarpur stretch of the Pink Line and the Deepali Chowk–Majlis Park extension of the Magenta Line. These additions are expected to strengthen connectivity across several parts of the capital.

The 12.3-km Majlis Park–Maujpur-Babarpur corridor includes eight elevated stations and forms part of the existing Pink Line. With this extension, the line will span about 71.5 km, making Delhi home to the country’s first fully operational Ring Metro network.

Construction of the Majlis Park–Maujpur corridor involved building a new bridge over the Yamuna River along with a double-decker viaduct carrying both a metro track and a flyover. The structure will become the fifth metro bridge built across the river in Delhi.

The prime minister ^​also laid the foundation stone for three new metro corridors under Phase V-A of the expansion plan. These corridors together cover about 16.1 km and aim to further expand Delhi’s metro network.

The construction of this corridor involved major engineering work, including a new bridge across the Yamuna River and a double-decker viaduct carrying both a metro track and a road flyover.

With the addition of the new stretch, the Pink Line network now spans about 71.5 kilometres. The looped alignment enables passengers to travel between multiple metro corridors with fewer transfers.

The corridor will benefit residents in areas such as Burari, Jagatpur-Wazirabad, Khajuri Khas, Bhajanpura and Yamuna Vihar. Commuters from these neighbourhoods will now get faster metro access to other parts of the capital without relying heavily on road transport.

The expansion of the Delhi Metro network is expected to reduce dependence on private vehicles, ease traffic congestion and help curb pollution in the national capital while providing faster and more reliable public transport.