Delhi Metro refuses to share pillar design details

Can the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation withhold information about the pillar design of the Metro service citing Intellectual Property Rights?

A full bench of the Central Information Commission will decide the tricky issue of whether the design of the pillar collapsed last year can be made public under the RTI Act or the IPR over the same allow DMRC to withhold it.

Last year in July, a cantilevered bracket of Metro pillar number 67 collapsed near South Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area killing six and injuring more than 15 people. The Delhi Metro had attributed the accident to a "problem in the design" of the pillar claiming they "were trying to rectify it."

There was a defect in the peer cap which caused the displacement," Delhi Metro spokesperson Anuj Dayal had said.

An RTI applicant Sudhir Vohra sought designs of the pillar number 67 along with structural drawings of both the foundation and the superstructure, including all steel reinforcement details, foundation details, engineering calculations and soil tests from DMRC.

The corporation refused to share any details saying it holds the IPR of the designs and other details and their disclosure would affect the commercial interest of the company which makes it.

The corporation also cited issues of safety and security saying disclosure of design specifications to the general public as well as to the RTI applicant would directly affect the safety and security of the Metro Rail system.

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SNATCHERS ARE ON PROWL AT METRO STATIONS AT NIGHT

When you are at some isolated Metro stations at Dwarka at night, be over cautious about your purse, chain and other belongings, as they may be snatched. After snatching, you may be heading for another trouble in attempting to lodge an FIR for the loss, forget about its recovery for a moment, as the recovery rate is minimum in such cases.

On 25th March, 2010 the purse of Mrs. Madhu Gupta was snatched which contained US$ 3800 and important documents when she was returning to her house from Sector 10 Metro Station, Dwarka. According to the complaint, duly acknowledged at the Police Station, a copy of which is with the author, the total loss is about rupees three lakh plus important documents like credit cards, cheque book and so on but the police station has not written an FIR on one pretest or the other. In the absence of an FIR, she has to satisfy herself by delivering complaint on the next day i.e. on 26th March. Mr Gupta told on 27th, that when he and Mrs. Gupta again requested the police for registering the FIR, the cop asked her to give the serial numbers of dollars and upon failure to do so, he did not register the FIR.

Mrs. Gupta was returning with her son Karan Gupta at about 10.45 p.m., on 25th March when a bike hit her from behind and consequently, she fell down on the ground. Her son helped her to stand and when she stood, she immediately realized that her purse has been snatched and told this to her son who tried to catch the biker by taking lift from some body else but he could not catch the two-bikers on one bike as they ran away taking advantage of darkness. He or her mother failed to note the number of the bike due to darkness and due to shock of sudden ambush. Karan is working in Illinois, USA, and came to Delhi on 20th March and drawn the money from his bank to pay the installment of his education loan.

The lost items include US$ 3800, Swiss Frank 600/-, Rs. 9,000/-, Credit Cards of HDFC, HSBC, City Bank, ICICI Bank, PAN Card, Driving Licence, Cheque Books, key of locker, Id. Card of Punjab National Bank, Insurance documents. On all the documents, address of her previous residence at Ashok Vihar, Delhi has been given as she has shifted from there to Dwarka recently few days ago. She is working in Punjab National Bank, New Delhi and resides at Sector 10, Dwarka, New Delhi.

M K Gupta
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Metro To Rope In More Volunteers To Manage Crowds

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Two days after a man and a woman lost their legs after falling on the tracks at a crowded metro station, Delhi Metro officials said they will rope in more volunteers to tackle ill-mannered commuters.

'Given that we estimate the commuter footfall to reach 2 million by October when the Metro operations will increase to 190 km, we are certainly trying to plan out another programme to increase the number of volunteers for crowd control. We have not decided on a number,' Delhi Metro spokesperson Anuj Dayal told IANS Sunday.

The Metro ferries around 950,000 commuters daily on its nearly 96-km network. By October, ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, it will access nearly all areas of the national capital as well as suburbs like Gurgaon covering 190 km.

During peak travel hours, that last till 8.30 p.m., around 16 customer service executives man crowded platforms to direct crowds. Later this number reduces to four.

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Anand Vihar line opens for public today

NEW DELHI: Over 60,000 residents of east Delhi are expected to switch to Delhi Metro’s new Yamuna Bank-Anand Vihar stretch for their dailycommute from Thursday when the line will be thrown open to the public.

The stretch was flagged off by Union urban development minister Jaipal Reddy and chief minister Shiela Dikshit on Wednesday. This is the first Metro line to open this year. But from now on, a new Metro line will open every other month till September. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) managing director E Sreedharan said the Inderlok-Mundka stretch will open next month.

From 6 am on Thursday, alternate trains from Dwarka will head for Anand Vihar and Noida City Centre respectively. The Metro station at Yamuna Bank will serve as an important interchange between the two lines, which are an extension of the existing Line 3. The 6.25 km-long Anand Vihar-Yamuna Bank stretch runs fully elevated along Vikas Marg which has a traffic volume of over 1.5 lakh vehicles daily. It is expected to take a considerable load off traffic on the main road as it passes through densely-populated residential and commercial areas.

The line has five stops at Laxmi Nagar, Nirman Vihar, Preet Vihar, Karkardooma and Anand Vihar. All the stations will also double up as foot overbridges (FOB) which pedestrians can use to cross the road without entering the paid area of the station. The Metro will traverse the distance between Yamuna Bank and Anand Vihar in 11 minutes as against the travel time of about 45 minutes by road. Commuters will be able to park their vehicles at parking lots provided at Karkardooma, Anand Vihar and Yamuna Bank stations.

The Metro station at Anand Vihar is coming up in an integrated transport terminal which also houses an ISBT and a railway station. This stop is expected to be one of the busiest stations on the line as it will also cater to inter-state traffic from UP till this Metro line is extended by 2.3 km to enter Ghaziabad.

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Metro’s Anand Vihar line may open next week

For hundreds of residents from several East Delhi colonies and those from Ghaziabad, this should come as a much-awaited relief from the tiring commute to the city.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation’s (DMRC) Anand Vihar line is likely to start next week. “The Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety is to inspect the line (Yamuna Bank – Anand Vihar line) on January 4. Once he gives a green signal, we will start the line immediately,” DMRC spokesperson Anuj Dayal said.

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