Karkarduma metro station

Karkarduma कड़कड़ डूमा
Delhi Metro station
Coordinates	28°38′55″N 77°18′17″E / 28.648641°N 77.304708°E
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
History
Opened	6 January 2010
Services
Preceding station   Delhi Metro   Following station Anand Vihar toward Vaishali Blue Line Anand Vihar Preet Vihar toward Yamuna Bank

The Karkarduma or Karkardooma Metro Station is an elevated station located on the Blue Line of the Delhi Metro and opened on 6 January 2010.^[1][2] Though the existing station is at a height of 14.5 m, the interchange Metro station at Karkardooma, part of the Mukundpur-Shiv Vihar corridor in Phase III of Delhi Metro, is the highest station of the Delhi Metro network with a platform height of 22m from the ground level.^[3][4]

The station is named after the Karkardooma locality in East Delhi, around its historic twin village named Karkari.^[5] The area also has the district court of Delhi, the Karkardooma District Court in Karkardooma Courts Complex built in 1997-98.^[6]

References

1. "Station Information". Delhi Metro. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
2. "Anand Vihar Metro line flagged off". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 23 Sep 2013.
3. "60 feet above ground, Delhi Metro to run over flyover". Thaindian.com. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
4. "At Karkardooma, Metro's tall feat". The Times of India. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
5. Nivedita Khandekar (3 August 2013). "The ‘evolution’ of the twin villages". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
6. "Karkardooma Courts Complex". Karkardooma Courts Complex website. Retrieved 2013-09-23.