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Crowd waits at Rajiv Chowk Metro Station in 2002, in the FIRST year of Delhi Metro's operations Delhi crowd gets out of Delhi Metro train at Rajiv Chowk or Connaught Place metro station at the approximate time of the DMRC inauguration circa 2002. Everything looks spick and span and spanking clean. The crowds look smaller in number. Indians and chiefly Dilli wallahs and Dilli walis sitting inside Delhi Metro trains in the year of inauguration circa 2002: Rare semi-archival footage. Inception of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation dates back to 1995 with its first run in 2002. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) started work on the metro's first section – the Red line – in 1998. It opened in 2002. Further sections of the system started running trains in 2006 and 2011. The Government of Indi
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