The Delhi Metro will be observing 30^th January 2012 to 5^th February 2012 as "Smart Card Week" to promote and popularize extensive use of Contactless Smart Card (CSC) for its frequent travelers and tourists alike. The theme of the week will be "Be SMART, Travel SMART, Use SMART CARD". During this week, ‘Special Counters’ will be made operational at twenty Metro stations having the highest ridership/footfalls (List of stations attached).

These counters will be manned by a special team of Customer Relation Assistants (CRAs) to brief and guide the passengers on Smart Card, which is a special type of ticket used for multiple journeys based on value available on it. Commuters will be encouraged to use Smart Card to save time from daily purchase of tokens, standing in Queues to purchase tokens, to avail 10% discount on every journey, for freedom of choice of originating and destination station, freedom from keeping change every time etc. Similarly, tourists coming to visit Delhi Metro will be explained the concept of Tourist Smart Card for unlimited rides for a single day and three day period.

To provide greater awareness among commuters, advertisements through FM Radio channels will also be aired by highlighting 10% discount on CSC usage and other related benefits, during the week. Printed literature detailing everything about the Smart Card and its provisions will also be made available at Special Counters for passengers. Smart Cards can be purchased from Customer Care Centers of any station.

Presently, about 65% of the Metro commuters are using Smart Card every day. About 12 thousand Metro Smart cards are being sold each day from the Metro stations and about 6.5 Lakh tokens are sold each day. DMRC is also providing dedicated exit gates only for Smart Card users at many stations.

Delhi Metro Smart Cards at a glance:
Security Deposit	Rs. 50/-
Minimum recharge	Rs.100/-
Maximum recharge	Rs.1000/-
Returning charge	Rs. 5/-
One Day Tourist Card (for unlimited travel in a day)	Rs. 150/- (Including Rs. 50/- of refundable security deposit )
Three Day Tourist Card (for unlimited travel for 3 days)	Rs. 300/- (Including Rs. 50/- of refundable security deposit)

Delhi Metro became the first Metro rail in the world to introduce Contact less Smart Tokens (CST) and Contact less Smart Cards (CSC) in place of paper tickets to travel in the Metro. The average life of a CSC/CST is 50000 electronic transactions or 6-7 years.

TOP 20 STATIONS IN TERMS OF DAILY RIDERSHIP

S No	Station Name	Ridership(Approx. figures)
1	Chandini Chowk	64,000
2	Rajiv Chowk	4,50,000 (including interchange footfall)
3	Karol Bagh	44,000
4	Pragati Maidan	17,000
5	Laxmi Nagar	33,000
6	G.T.B. Nagar	28,000
7	Shahdara	25,000
8	Uttam Nagar East	31,000
9	Dilshad Garden	29,000
10	Saket	9,000
11	Vaisali	28,000
12	Noida City Center	25,000
13	Kashmere Gate	26,000
14	MG Road	27,000
15	Dwarka Mor	25,000
16	R K ashram Marg	25,000
17	Barakhamba Road	31,000
18	Chawri Bazar	26,000
19	Shadipur	23,000
20	Anand Vihar	18,000

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