Metro to JLN Stadium just hours before the Games?

New Delhi, Sep 30 (India Report)
Delhi Metro&aposs Central Secretariat- Badarpur corridor, which provides connectivity to the main Commonwealth Games venue, is likely to be operational just hours before the event begins on Sunday.
The Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety will inspect the line for two days beginning tomorrow.
The 21-km line that connects Central Delhi with some of the densely-populated areas of South Delhi, close to Haryana border, has already missed its deadline and will reach only till Sarita Vihar.
Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety R K Kardam, who received documents relating to the inspection of the line from Central Secretariat to Sarita Vihar yesterday, said he will inspect the line tomorrow and on Saturday.
Metro decided to inaugurate the line till Sarita Vihar as some work on the stretch from Sarita Vihar-Badarpur is still pending. The small stretch is likely to be opened 10 days later.
"I have received the papers for the inspection of the Badarpur corridor. I will be inspecting the line on Friday and Saturday,"he told media.
With the inspection to be held till Saturday, DMRC will be able to inaugurate the line to public only on Sunday provided it gets the mandatory safety certificate from the CMRS.
Even if the CMRS gives his clearence on Saturday, the line will be opened on Sunday, which means the line will be operational just hours before the Games begin. The opening ceremony of the Games will be held on Sunday evening.
Besides providing connectivity to JLN Stadium, the Metro will reach 10 of the 11 stadias.
This is the third line where DMRC has failed to meet its deadline. The earlier lines where it missed the deadlines were the Yamuna Bank-Noida City Centre and the Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar corridors.
The line got delayed due to Delhi Metro&aposs worst-ever accident at Zamrudpur in South Delhi on July 12, 2009. Seven persons were killed when a bridge collapsed during the construction of the corridor.