Delhi Metro floats EOI to produce platform screen doors in India

Under Phase-4 and Phase-5 of the Delhi Metro expansion, platform screen doors (PSDs) will be installed at all stations

Published on: May 5, 2026, 04:02:12 IST

By Jasjeev Gandhiok

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New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has issued an Expression of Interest (EoI) for Indian companies to jointly manufacture platform screen doors (PSDs) within the country, officials said.

PSDs are safety barriers installed at the edge of platforms to separate commuters from the tracks. Currently, the DMRC imports these barriers, making procurement both costly and time-consuming, officials aware of the matter said.

The move follows the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs’ March 13, 2025, directive to the DMRC and other Metro corporations in the country. The letter called for PSDs to be manufactured in India. “...guidelines are being issued on procurement of PSDs for immediate compliance…which includes a minimum 75% of the manufacturing that has to be done in India,” the letter stated.

Under Phase-4 and Phase-5 of the Delhi Metro expansion, PSDs will be installed at all stations.

Officials said that while full-height screen doors will be installed at underground stations, half-height screen doors will be installed at elevated stations.

Currently, 83 of the 303 operational Delhi Metro stations have half-screen PSDs, while eight stations have full-screen doors. All seven stations of the Airport Express Line are equipped with full-screen PSDs, along with the Krishna Park Extension station on the Magenta Line, which was opened for the public during the ongoing Phase-4 expansion.

The DMRC started installing PSDs in Pink and Magenta lines, which are driverless trains in the network. However, it had also retrofitted PSDs on six stations of Yellow Line — Kashmere Gate, Chandni Chowk, Chawri Bazar, New Delhi, Rajiv Chowk and Central Secretariat — stations prone to heavy crowds.

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Jasjeev Gandhiok
Jasjeev Gandhiok is an Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times, where he covers environment, climate change, the clean energy transition and wildlife at the National Bureau. Gandhiok has over a decade of experience in journalism and is based in Delhi. He has reported extensively on Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). This includes the region's air pollution woes, a polluted Yamuna and on urban wildlife still thriving in the region. He joined HT in October 2021. Prior to that, he had five-year stint at The Times of India in Delhi, where he also covered Delhi, with a focus on environment and wildlife. Gandhiok has covered some recent events around the Capital too, ranging from the farmers' protests, the northeast Delhi riots and the CAA-NRC protests, reporting from the ground on all of these. He also travels across the country to report on how environment and climate change impact everyday life, while also writing on endangered species. His reports in 2019 on toxic leachate from Delhi's landfills led to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) taking suo motu cognisance and ultimately asking the state government to start bio-mining to flatten and remove all three landfills in the capital. He also closely tracks the implementation of government policies on climate, renewable energy and environmental protection. His focus remains on impactful, public-interest journalism which explains how environmental decisions affect people's everyday lives.Read More

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