India, July 10 -- Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday launched the construction of the Inderlok-Indraprastha Metro Corridor at the Sarai Rohilla Metro Station construction site. The occasion marked the start of a 12.377-kilometre fully underground extension of Delhi Metro's Magenta Line that will add 10 new underground stations. The extension will connect to seven existing Metro lines and, once complete, make the Magenta Line the longest in the Delhi Metro network at nearly 89 kilometres.

The launch involved the start of diaphragm wall construction at Sarai Rohilla Metro Station, marking the first phase of the project. The ten underground stations on the new corridor are Inderlok, Daya Basti, Sarai Rohilla, Ajmal Khan Park, Jhandewala...