Delhi Metro commuters may see fewer call drops, better mobile connectivity

An excellent news for Delhi Metro commuters, particularly these utilizing the Magenta Line (Botanical Garden to Janakpuri West), poor mobile connectivity and frequent call drops may turn out to be an issue of the previous with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) licensing area for the set up of telecom towers.

The DMRC plans to license area for telecom towers at 20 areas, together with 15 metro stations and 5 prepare depots: Vasant Vihar, Jamia Millia Islamia, Okhla Vihar, Okhla Bird Sanctuary, Kalkaji Mandir, Dashrath Puri and the Kalindi Kunj prepare depot, amongst others.

Around a 100 towers have already come up alongside the busy Blue Line hall (Dwarka to Noida City Centre/Vaishali) and Yellow Line (Samaypur Badli to HUDA City Centre) to enhance poor cell-phone connectivity.

The oldest hall of the Red Line (Rithala to Shaheed Sthal New Bus Adda) will see mobile towers arising at Kashmere Gate, Tis Hazari, Netaji Subhash Place and Dilshad Garden, aside from the Shastri Park prepare depot.

Other areas the place mobile towers are going to be put in are on the Blue Line’s RK Ashram Marg station and Supreme Court (Pragati Maidan) station, aside from the Yamuna Bank prepare depot I and depot II and the Najafgarh prepare depot.

Two stations on the Violet Line (Kashmere Gate-Ballabhgarh), Raja Nahar Singh and Sant Surdas (Sihi), and the Badli depot of Yellow Line will even get the towers.

The licensing of those areas will assist DMRC increase its non-operational income whereas offering mobile protection on the station premises and its periphery for commuters utilizing the city rail community. DMRC plans to license plots of roughly 8 sq. metres at every location to erect the telecom towers.

The licensed websites and areas will stay with the DMRC, with out ceding any proper, title or curiosity of any nature in favour of the licensee.

The licensee will even have to make sure compliance with permissible radiation limits for mobile towers as laid down by the municipal companies, Delhi authorities, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and the central authorities’s Department of Telecommunications.

Apart from mobile towers at station premises, DMRC additionally plans extra mobile sign booster tools on varied sections of the Magenta and Pink (Shiv Vihar-Majlis Park) Lines that at present endure poor mobile connectivity. Aajka Samachar