Arjan Garh metro station
The Arjan Garh metro station is a station on the Yellow Line of Delhi Metro.[3][4] It is the last station on the line before it enters Haryana. The station was to be initially built a few hundred meters away from its present location near the Arjan Garh air force station. However, since that area was not densely populated, the alignment was shifted to Aya Nagar; despite this, its name was not changed to reflect the new location. Hence, a movement to get the name of the station changed was started by local residents in 2010.[5][6][7]
While the initial cost for changing the station's name was told as ₹248,000 (US$3,000) by DMRC, it was later increased to ₹5 crore (US$600,000). The residents went to the High Court of Delhi, which in Ved Pal vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Anr. ruled that the court cannot determine whether any policy or a specific decision taken to fulfill that policy is fair. It can only deal with the manner in which that decision was taken, and since the naming of the metro station after the Arjan Garh air force base could not be considered to be arbitrary or irrational, the petition was accordingly dismissed.[8]
Station layout
[edit]| L2 | Side platform | Doors will open on the left 
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| Platform 1 Southbound |
Towards → Millennium City Centre Gurugram Next Station: Guru Dronacharya | |
| Platform 2 Northbound |
Towards ← Samaypur Badli Next Station: Ghitorni | |
| Side platform | Doors will open on the left
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| L1 | Concourse | Fare control, station agent, metro card vending machines, crossover |
| G | Street Level | Gates |
Facilities
[edit]The station has the following facilities:[9]
- Token and automatic vending machines: Multiple machines on the unpaid concourse
- Toilets: 2 toilets – one on the unpaid concourse and another on the ground level
Entry/Exits
[edit]| Arjan Garh metro station: Gates | ||||
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| Gate No-1 | Gate No-2 | |||
| Mehrauli-Gurugram Road: Aya Nagar | Mehrauli-Gurugram Road: Indian Metrological Department (IMD) | |||
Connections
[edit]Bus
[edit]DTC bus route numbers 334, 428, 517, 525, D202 and Badarpur border - Gurugram bus stand serve the station from the Aya Nagar X-ing bus stop.[10][11]
See also
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- Mehrauli
- List of Delhi Metro stations
- Transport in Delhi
- Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
- Delhi Suburban Railway
- Delhi Monorail
- Delhi Transport Corporation
- South East Delhi
- New Delhi
- National Capital Region (India)
- List of rapid transit systems
- List of metro systems
References
[edit]- ^ "Parking details". DMRC. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
- ^ "Ridership details" (PDF). DMRC.
- ^ "Station Information". Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ "Arjan Garh (AJG)". DMRC. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ Munshi, Suhas (29 November 2012). "DMRC botches up name of Metro station Arjan Garh, correction would cost roughly upto 6 crores". New Delhi. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ Iqbal, Mohammad (13 September 2015). "Arjan Garh metro station cannot be renamed". The Hindu. New Delhi. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ Banerjee, Rumu (3 October 2016). "Rename other Metro stations too: RWAs". Times of India. New Delhi. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ Ved Pal vs Govt. of NCT Of Delhi & Anr. (High Court of Delhi 17 September 2015) ("In our opinion, there is no public interest involved in the present writ petition. Admittedly, naming or re-naming of a station is an administrative act. It is not for this court to substitute the decision of the administrative authority with its decision; merely because it appears to be a better decision."), Text.
- ^ "Arjan Garh: Facilities". DMRC. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ "Aya Nagar X-ing". google.com. businfo.dimts.in. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
- ^ "Delhi Transport Corporation". Govt of NCT of Delhi.[permanent dead link]
External links
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- Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)
- Delhi Metro Annual Reports
- "Station Information". Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRC). Archived from the original on 19 June 2010.
- UrbanRail.Net – Descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
- "Arjan Garh metro station" (Map). Google Maps.
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