New Delhi, June 11 -- Delhi's Ring Railway network, with 21 stations, ferried passengers in a circular route starting and ending at the Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station since the late 1970's, until the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown in early 2020. The network's revival could decrease the passenger traffic on Delhi's metro and bus networks but it would need additional railway lines and a solution for the illegal encroachments on railway land at many of the railway stations such as Daya Basti.

"There are many arterial railway routes going out of Delhi and there is a circular route that connects all these routes which is known as the Ring Railway. We call it the Delhi Avoiding Line (DAL) in the railway parlance which means that...