Overview
- DMRC announced on Sunday that train punctuality for 2026 stood at 99.95 percent using its 59‑second delay cutoff, a tighter standard than many peers.
- The corporation reported a Mean Distance Between Failures of 2.72 million car‑kilometres, a standard metric that it says shows strong equipment reliability.
- International benchmarking by the Community of Metros placed Delhi Metro among the top five most reliable systems worldwide based on a two‑minute delay criterion, the DMRC said.
- Automation and capacity changes have helped operations: about 29 percent of the network runs under Unattended Train Operation and headways on busy corridors have been reduced to 2 minutes 18 seconds.
- The network now covers 416.5 km across 303 stations with average daily ridership around 6.4 million and a single‑day record of over 8.1 million journeys, illustrating the scale the punctuality figures must support.