Arjan Garh metro station explained

Arjan Garh
Style:	Delhi Metro
Address:	Aya Nagar, South Delhi, Delhi - 110047
Country:	India
Structure:	Elevated, Double-track
Levels:	2
Tracks:	2
Parking:	Available^[1]
Electrified:	through overhead catenary
Accessible:	Yes
Status:	Staffed, Operational
Owned:	Delhi Metro
Operator:	Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
Passengers:	9,897/day 306,797/month (average)^[2]
Pass Year:	January 2015
Map State:	collapsed
Mapframe:	yes
Mapframe-Marker:	rail
Mapframe-Zoom:	14

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 by DMRC, it was later increased to . 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 → Next Station:
Platform 2 Northbound	Towards ← Next Station:
Side platform	Doors will open on the left
valign=top	L1	valign=top	Concourse	valign=top	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

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

• 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

External links

• Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)
• Delhi Metro Annual Reports
• Web site: Station Information . Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRC) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100619035828/http://delhimetrorail.com/commuters/station_information.html . 19 June 2010 . dmy.
• UrbanRail.Net – Descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Parking details. DMRC . 1 August 2024 . 7 September 2024.
2. Web site: Ridership details . January 2015 . DMRC . New Delhi . 19 November 2024 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151123153102/https://delhimetrorail.com/otherdocuments/867/RidershipDetails.pdf . 23 November 2015 . Wayback Machine.
3. Web site: Station Information . 5 September 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100619035828/http://delhimetrorail.com/commuters/station_information.html . 19 June 2010 . dmy.
4. Web site: Arjan Garh (AJG) . DMRC . 10 September 2024.
5. News: Munshi . Suhas . 29 November 2012 . DMRC botches up name of Metro station Arjan Garh, correction would cost roughly upto 6 crores . New Delhi . 10 September 2024.
6. News: Iqbal . Mohammad . 13 September 2015 . Arjan Garh metro station cannot be renamed . subscription . The Hindu . New Delhi . 10 September 2024.
7. News: Banerjee . Rumu . 3 October 2016 . Rename other Metro stations too: RWAs . Times of India . New Delhi . 10 September 2024.
8. Ved Pal vs Govt. of NCT Of Delhi & Anr. . High Court of Delhi . 17 September 2015 . https://indiankanoon.org/doc/138738590/ . 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. .
9. Web site: Arjan Garh: Facilities . DMRC . 10 September 2024.
10. Web site: Aya Nagar X-ing . google.com . businfo.dimts.in . 10 September 2024.
11. Web site: Delhi Transport Corporation . Govt of NCT of Delhi.