Arjan Garh metro station

Arjan Garh
Delhi Metro station
General information
Location	Aya Nagar, South Delhi, Delhi - 110047 India
Coordinates	28°28′51″N77°7′33″E / 28.48083°N 77.12583°E / 28.48083; 77.12583
Owned by	Delhi Metro
Operated by	Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
Line(s)	Yellow Line
Platforms	Side platform Platform-1 → Millennium City Centre Gurugram Platform-2 → Samaypur Badli
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated, Double-track
Platform levels	2
Parking	Available [1]
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Status	Staffed, Operational
Station code	AJG
History
Opened	21 June 2010;14 years ago (2010-06-21)
Electrified	25 kV 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Passengers
January 2015	9,897/day 306,797/month (average) [2]
Services
Preceding station Delhi Metro Following station Ghitorni towards Samaypur Badli Yellow Line Guru Dronacharya towards Millennium City Centre Gurugram
Route map Legend Samaypur Badli Depot Samaypur Badli Rohini Sector 18, 19 Outer Ring Road Haiderpur Badli Mor Magenta Line Indian Railways Jahangirpuri Adarsh Nagar Ring Road Azadpur Pink Line Model Town GTB Nagar Vishwavidyalaya Timarpur - Kyber Pass Depot Vidhan Sabha Civil Lines ISBT Road Kashmere Gate Red Line Violet Line Grand Trunk Road Chandni Chowk Chawri Bazar New Delhi Airport Express service tunnel to Blue line Rajiv Chowk Blue Line Patel Chowk Central Secretariat Violet Line Rajpath Udyog Bhawan Lok Kalyan Marg Jor Bagh Ring railway Dilli Haat - INA Pink Line Ring Road AIIMS Green Park Hauz Khas Magenta Line Outer Ring Road Malviya Nagar Saket Mehrauli Badarpur Road Qutab Minar Chhatarpur Golden Line Sultanpur Sultanpur Depot Ghitorni Arjan Garh Delhi Haryana border Guru Dronacharya Sikanderpur   Rapid Metro Gurgaon   MG Road IFFCO Chowk Millennium City Centre Gurugram
Location

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

L2	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
	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
L1	Concourse	Fare control, station agent, metro card vending machines, crossover
G	Street Level	Gates

Facilities

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

Arjan Garh metro station: Gates
Gate No-1	Gate No-2
Mehrauli-Gurugram Road: Aya Nagar	Mehrauli-Gurugram Road: Indian Metrological Department (IMD)

Connections

Bus

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

• Trains portal

• 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

1. "Parking details". DMRC. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
2. "Ridership details" (PDF). New Delhi: DMRC. January 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 November 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2024– via Wayback Machine.
3. "Station Information". Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
4. "Arjan Garh (AJG)". DMRC. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
5. 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.
6. Iqbal, Mohammad (13 September 2015). "Arjan Garh metro station cannot be renamed" . The Hindu. New Delhi. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
7. Banerjee, Rumu (3 October 2016). "Rename other Metro stations too: RWAs". Times of India. New Delhi. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
8. Ved Pal vs Govt. of NCT Of Delhi & Anr.(High Court of Delhi17 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 .
9. "Arjan Garh: Facilities". DMRC. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
10. "Aya Nagar X-ing". google.com. businfo.dimts.in. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
11. "Delhi Transport Corporation". Govt of NCT of Delhi.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}

External links

• 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 .