Delhi is running to stay fit, metro started at 3:30 am!
The Athletics Federation of india is organizing the 10th edition of the New delhi Marathon. Under this, the message of healthy living will be given according to the Fit india Campaign, Clean Green delhi and Clean india Initiative. More than 25,000 runners-participants are expected to participate in this marathon on sunday (23 February). For this, metro services will start from morning.
Metro is running from 3:30 am
This marathon, which starts from jawaharlal nehru Stadium at 4 am, will come back and end here. During this time, full marathon and 10 km run competition have been organized. For the convenience of the runners participating in it, delhi Metro rail Corporation (DMRC) has decided to operate metro train services from 3:30 am on three lines of delhi Metro, Blue, Yellow and Violet Line.
Metro trains will be operated at an interval of half an hour till 6 am. DMRC shared this information on the social media platform X and said that, for the convenience of the runners participating in the marathon, the first metro service on all three major lines Blue, Yellow and Violet line started at 3.30 am and till the start of metro train operations as per the normal routine till 6 am, metro trains are being run from the terminal stations of these three metro lines every half an hour. While metro services will be available on other lines as per the normal timetable. 25 thousand participants expected to participate According to the information received, this marathon race giving the message of healthy life was flagged off by pullela gopichand and Ajinkya Rahane. 25 thousand participants are expected to participate in it. In view of which, delhi traffic police has also made full preparations. During the marathon, diversion and restrictions will be applicable on many routes, information of which has been shared by the traffic police on the social media platform X. traffic police issued advisory informing about the affected routes
traffic police issued advisory stating that many routes will be affected due to marathon race. Therefore people are advised to avoid using private vehicles.
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