Other offcials said the district authorities had held meetings with market welfare associations mall owners and private offices to ensure Covid norms were enforced. Among the 11 revenue districts of Delhi, the South East district saw the highest number of challans 4,980 being issued last week, with more than 700 challens being issued on average every day. With the peak being 756 challans on Friday, June 11. On the other hand, the South West district saw the last number of bookings the highest number of challns on a single day. Some of the busy Delhi Metro stations like Rajiv Chowk, Chawri Bazar and Barakhamba Road saw massive queues and an average waiting time of around 30 minutes to enter the station on monday evening as unlock relaxations came into effect. During the morning rush hour on monday stations like Dwarka and Nawada saw wairing time up to 40 minutes. At many places social distancing was found to be completely missing as queues kept getting longer, but stringent restrictions meant limited commuters could be allowed inside at a time. Delhi metro resumed its service on June 7, four weeks after operations were completely suspended to contrain the spread of Covid-19 and 48 days after its doors were closed to passengers not engaged in essential services. However, with only 50% seating capacity and no standing passengers allowed, the carrying capacity of trains have reduced by more than 80%. Taking to social media, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation tweted that apart from drastically reduced carrying capacity to maintain social distance, entry of passengers is allowed in a limited and controlled manner to have manageable crowds in trains, at platform and inside station premises. As the number of entry points are limited, DMRC advised commuters to keep sufficient time in hand for travel.
