Over 5.25 lakh commuters travelling daily by the Delhi Metro will benefit considerably as the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), on Tuesday, added four more trains to its existing fleet of 60 trains.

The new trains, which have been added to take on the increasing passenger traffic, will run on Line 3 (Indraprastha to Dwarka sub-city), which carries the highest number of commuters. The increase in the number of trains from 349 to 362 will help to reduce the wait time from 4.5 minutes to 3 minutes.

The DMRC has also extended the peak hours on Line 2 (Central Secretariat - Vishwa Vidyalaya). As compared to the peak hours of 8 am - 12.30 pm and 4.30 pm - 8.30 pm earlier, the peak time has now been increased to 8 am - 8.30 pm. During this time, the number of train trips will increase to 436 and trains will arrive at a frequency of 4 minutes.

Line 1 (Shahdara to Rithala) will see no change as the frequency of trains will continue to be 4 minutes during peak hours.

The Delhi Metro plans to increase its fleet by 6 more trains in 2007 and these will be distributed among all the three lines. These trains are manufactured at the Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) unit in Bangalore by a consortium of ROTEM (Korea) and Mitsubishi Electric (Japan).

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