Arjan Garh metro station


Arjan Garh
Logo of the Delhi Metro Delhi Metro station
General information
LocationAya Nagar, South Delhi, Delhi - 110047
India
Coordinates28°28′51″N 77°7′33″E / 28.48083°N 77.12583°E / 28.48083; 77.12583
Owned byDelhi Metro
Operated byDelhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
Line(s)Yellow Line
Platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeElevated, Double-track
Platform levels2
ParkingCar parking Available[1]
AccessibleYes Disabled access
Other information
StatusStaffed, Operational
Station codeAJG
History
Opened21 June 2010; 14 years ago (2010-06-21)
Electrified25 kV 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Passengers
January 20159,897/day
306,797/month (average)[2]
Services
Preceding station Logo of the Delhi Metro Delhi Metro Following station
Ghitorni
towards Samaypur Badli
 Yellow Line Guru Dronacharya
towards Millennium City Centre Gurugram
Location
Map

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]

  1. ^ "Parking details". DMRC. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Ridership details" (PDF). DMRC.
  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 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.