Delhi Metro is a metro system serving New Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Ghaziabad. The project became live on December 24, 2002. There are over 216 Metro Trains running in Delhi-NCR and million of people travel on daily basis. Have you ever wondered how much DMRC earns in a day? How much revenue do they generate? These figures are really very high.
Recently, I was standing at Central Secretariat Metro station with one of my friends. We had to go to Huda City center in Gurgaon. All the metros that were running on that route were over crowded that day so we decided to wait for few minutes. While, we were waiting, we started doing some calculations.
METRO passed after every 5 minutes which had 6 or 8 metro coaches. Each coach has leg room for 80-130 passengers. But on a busy day there can be more than 130 passengers in each coach. Assuming that metro with 6 coaches and metro with 8 coaches came alternatively and on an average there are 150 passengers in a coach, then :-
Average Coaches : 6+8 = 14/2 = 7
Total Passengers in a train : 7 x 150 = 1,050
Total Train in 1 Hour : 60 min / 4 min = 15 trains in an hour.
The station has 2 platforms : 15 trains x 2 = 30 trains (in one hour)
Total Passengers travelling : 30 x 1050 = 31,500 (one hour)
Metro runs from 5:30 am to 12 pm
Total Hours : 18.5 hrs
Total Passengers travelling : 31,500 x 18.5 = 5,82,750 (eighteen hours)
Minimum Fare : Rupees 8
Maximum Fare : Rupees 50
Average Fare : Rupees 29
Total Revenue : 29 x 582750 = 1,68,99,750 (approx 1.6 cr)
Note : All the above calculations are just my approximations.
Let us now verify my results with the help of very famous newspaper The Hindu. According to the report of the newspaper :
Recently, I was standing at Central Secretariat Metro station with one of my friends. We had to go to Huda City center in Gurgaon. All the metros that were running on that route were over crowded that day so we decided to wait for few minutes. While, we were waiting, we started doing some calculations.
METRO passed after every 5 minutes which had 6 or 8 metro coaches. Each coach has leg room for 80-130 passengers. But on a busy day there can be more than 130 passengers in each coach. Assuming that metro with 6 coaches and metro with 8 coaches came alternatively and on an average there are 150 passengers in a coach, then :-
Average Coaches : 6+8 = 14/2 = 7
Total Passengers in a train : 7 x 150 = 1,050
Total Train in 1 Hour : 60 min / 4 min = 15 trains in an hour.
The station has 2 platforms : 15 trains x 2 = 30 trains (in one hour)
Total Passengers travelling : 30 x 1050 = 31,500 (one hour)
Metro runs from 5:30 am to 12 pm
Total Hours : 18.5 hrs
Total Passengers travelling : 31,500 x 18.5 = 5,82,750 (eighteen hours)
Minimum Fare : Rupees 8
Maximum Fare : Rupees 50
Average Fare : Rupees 29
Total Revenue : 29 x 582750 = 1,68,99,750 (approx 1.6 cr)
Note : All the above calculations are just my approximations.
Let us now verify my results with the help of very famous newspaper The Hindu. According to the report of the newspaper :
The Delhi Metro railway’s average daily earning crossed Rs.1 crore in the month of September.
According to a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation official, the daily earning shot up and crossed the one-crore mark in September, making it the most profitable month since the metro rail became operational on December 25, 2002.
The Delhi Metro’s average earning per day during September was Rs.1,00,27,877. Among the three operational lines, the Dwarka Sector 9-Yamuna Bank corridor (Line 3) earned the highest revenue of Rs.41,39,892, while the Dilshad Garden-Rithala section (Line 1) recorded Rs.31,27,559. The earning from the Jehangirpuri-Central Secretariat corridor (Line 2) was Rs.27,60,426.
The highest revenue earned on a single day stood at Rs.1,18,65,966, which was achieved on September 7. During the month, the Delhi Metro recorded an average daily ridership of 8.53 lakh.
“On August 3 this year, the metro earned Rs.1.25 crore, the highest revenue earning so far since operations started in 2002,” said a DMRC official.
Source : http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/metros-daily-revenue-crosses-rs-1-crore/article27483.ece
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