ITO metro station

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ITO – Income Tax Office
Delhi Metro station
General information
Location	Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, Delhi - 110002
Coordinates	28°37′45.7370″N 77°14′28.7513″E / 28.629371389°N 77.241319806°E / 28.629371389; 77.241319806
Owned by	Delhi Metro
Operated by	Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
Line(s)	Violet Line
Platforms	Island platform Platform-1 → Raja Nahar Singh Platform-2 → Kashmere Gate
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground, Double-track
Platform levels	2
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	ITO
History
Opened	8 June 2015; 9 years ago (2015-06-08)
Electrified	25 kV 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Services
Preceding station Delhi Metro Following station Delhi Gate towards Kashmere Gate Violet Line Mandi House towards Raja Nahar Singh
Route map Legend Kashmere Gate Red Line Yellow Line Lal Qila Jama Masjid Delhi Gate Green Line ITO Mandi House Blue Line Janpath Central Secretariat Yellow Line Khan Market Lodi Road Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Ring Railway Jangpura Lajpat Nagar Pink Line Golden Line Ring Road Moolchand Kailash Colony Nehru Place Kalkaji Mandir Magenta Line Outer Ring Road Govindpuri Harkesh Nagar Okhla Indian Railways Jasola Apollo Sarita Vihar Mohan Estate Tughlakabad Golden Line Badarpur Border Delhi Haryana border Sarai NH 19 / Mathura Road NHPC Chowk Mewla Maharajpur Sector 28 Badkhal Mor Old Faridabad Neelam Chowk Ajronda Bata Chowk Escorts Mujesar Sant Surdas (Sihi) NH 19 / Mathura Road Raja Nahar Singh
Location

The ITO metro station is a station on the Violet Line of Delhi Metro serving the busy ITO intersection of New Delhi. It was inaugurated on 8 June 2015 by the then urban development minister M. Venkaiah Naidu and Delhi's chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.^[1]

The ITO metro station was one of the most awaited stations of the Delhi Metro under Phase III expansion. Whereas the opening of the Mandi House metro station, which is also an interchange station now, took a chunk of the load off the Rajiv Chowk metro station. The ITO metro station is expected to take some of the surface traffic off the ITO intersection, which witnesses heavy traffic jams due to a number of private and commercial vehicles, coming from South and East Delhi, which is the main arterial road for the people residing in those areas. According to Delhi Police, the ITO intersection is one of the most congested areas in the city, with the entire flow of traffic from east Delhi to the rest of the city and vice versa. going through this intersection. Over 1.75 lakh vehicles use the ITO intersection every day.

With the opening of the ITO metro station, a number of commuters whose offices are located in the ITO area as expected to switch to the metro. As per estimates of the Delhi Metro, around 25,000 commuters are expected to use the station by 2016. The number will go up to over 35,000 by 2021, said a Delhi Metro official.