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NEW DELHI: One of the final formalities for opening the much-awaited 7-km-long Kashmere Gate-Central Secretariat section of Delhi Metro's underground corridor was completed on Tuesday with the Commissioner of Railway Safety, G. P. Garg, inspecting the entire system along with senior Delhi Metro Rail Corporation officials. Mr Garg, who reached the Delhi Metro station at Central Secretariat around 10 in the morning, spent nearly five hours inspecting the rolling stock, station buildings, tracks and various systems and facilities. The official was accompanied by a number of his team members, who had inspected the system earlier too. From Central Secretariat, Mr Garg boarded the Metro train and travelled to all the other stations -- Patel Chowk, Connaught Place, New Delhi Railway Station, Chawri Bazar, Old Delhi Railway Station and Kashmere Gate. At each of the stations, he got off the train and inspected the various electronic, electrical, signalling and communication systems and gadgets as also the ticketing mechanisms, the escalators and elevators, and special features like facilities for the physically challenged. He also took stock of the safety and security measures, like the Automatic Train Protection System and the Automatic Train Operation System, taken to meet any exigency. Made with the use of tunnel boring machines and also the Austrian tunnel boring system -- which was used for making the Chawri Bazar station, that is the first in the country to be made through TBMs -- the corridor also boasts of many firsts. The Connaught Place station coming up where the Central Park existed is expected to become one of the busiest stations in the country by December 2006 as then it would also be functioning as the interchange point for the Underground Line 2 and the Dwarka-Indraprastha Line 3. The underground corridor, which Mr Garg inspected, has also been designed to provide easy mode switchover facility to railway passengers at the New Delhi and Old Delhi stations and to inter-state bus passengers at Kashmere Gate. At all these stations, special subways or pedestrian bridges have been constructed to facilitate passenger movement. Following the "main inspection'' of the system the Delhi Metro officials said the decks have been cleared for the running of the trains on this all-important section which would take the Metro into the heart of the Capital and Lutyens' Delhi and would therefore make it all the more popular among the population. The Director (Project and Planning), C.B.K. Rao, said after evaluating the details Mr Garg would submit his report. While the report is expected by the week-end, he said, the new Metro section will in all probability be inaugurated in the "third week'' of June. As for the exact date of the inauguration and the dignitaries to be invited for the event, the decision is awaiting the clearance from the Commissioner of Railway Safety as all future events depend on it.
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