The Lajpat Nagar to Saket G-Block corridor is 8.385 km with eight stations, all elevated. It is not a line of its own — it is Line 11, the branch of the Delhi Metro’s Golden Line.
The Union Cabinet approved it on 13 March 2024, and the Prime Minister laid the foundation stone later that month. There is no verifiable opening date. The Golden Line’s public record lists the main section as under construction with a 2026 target, but lists this branch only as approved — a distinction covered in full below. Verified August 2026.
That gap between approval and delivery is the most important thing on this page, and the last section deals with what it should mean for a decision you are making now.
The Eight Stations
Running from the Lajpat Nagar end:
| # | Station | Serves | Interchange |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lajpat Nagar | Central Market, Amar Colony, Ring Road | Violet, Pink — would become a triple interchange |
| 2 | Andrews Ganj | Andrews Ganj, Ansal Plaza, Khel Gaon Marg | — |
| 3 | Greater Kailash-1 | GK-1, M Block Market, the northern blocks | — |
| 4 | Chirag Delhi | Chirag Delhi village, Sheikh Sarai | Magenta |
| 5 | Pushpa Bhawan | Pushpa Bhawan, Sheikh Sarai Phase II | — |
| 6 | Saket District Centre | Select Citywalk, DLF Avenue, MGF Metropolitan | — |
| 7 | Pushp Vihar | Pushp Vihar sectors | — |
| 8 | Saket G-Block | Saket’s lettered blocks, G Block | Golden Line 10 |
Station names come from the government announcement made at the foundation-stone stage. Names on pre-construction corridors are routinely revised before signage goes up, so treat these as the approved names rather than as final ones.
Two of the interchanges are worth understanding now. Chirag Delhi already sits on the Magenta Line, so this corridor would give it a second line — and Chirag Delhi on the Magenta Line shows where that puts you across the rest of the network. Lajpat Nagar already serves the Violet and Pink lines; a third would make it one of Delhi’s few triple interchanges, and the Violet Line from there is already a fast run into central Delhi.
It Is a Branch, Not a Line
Most coverage of this corridor treats it as a standalone line. That framing makes its interchange logic impossible to follow, so it is worth correcting.
The Golden Line is two things:
- Line 10, the main line — 29.785 km, 19 stations, seven elevated and twelve underground. Its termini are currently recorded as Terminal 1-IGI Airport and Kalindi Kunj. This has changed: earlier coverage, including much of what is still online, describes the corridor as running Aerocity to Tughlakabad. If you are cross-checking this page against an older article and the endpoints do not match, that is why — the older description is out of date rather than wrong at the time of writing.
- Line 11, the branch — the 8.385 km Lajpat Nagar to Saket G-Block corridor covered here.
They meet at Saket G-Block, which is a station on both.
This matters practically. The branch’s value depends heavily on the main line also being open. A resident of Greater Kailash boarding at GK-1 to reach the airport, Vasant Kunj or Chhatarpur is relying on the interchange at Saket G-Block working — which requires Line 10 to be running. If the branch opened first, it would connect eight South Delhi stations to each other and to the Magenta, Violet and Pink lines, but not to the Golden Line’s main destinations.
The main line’s own alignment passes through Vasant Kunj’s residential sectors and the Chhatarpur belt, which is why the two projects are usually discussed together — and why anyone renting in Chhatarpur has been watching Phase 4 as closely as Saket and GK residents have.
What the Status Actually Is
Here is the full record, stated plainly.
Approved: 13 March 2024, by the Union Cabinet, jointly with the Inderlok–Indraprastha corridor. The two together run to 20.762 km at a combined cost of ₹8,399 crore, of which the Central government contributes ₹4,309 crore and the remainder comes from the Delhi government and international funding agencies.
Foundation stone: laid by the Prime Minister in March 2024, at a Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium event.
Current status: this is where it gets less clear, and it is worth being precise about how clear.
The Golden Line’s public record lists the main section, Line 10, as under construction with a planned opening of 2026. It lists the branch, Line 11, simply as approved. That record is a general-reference compilation rather than a DMRC statement — it is the best current summary available publicly, but it is not the operator speaking.
We could find no DMRC publication either confirming or contradicting it, no announced contract award for the branch, and no evidence of site work we could verify. So the honest position is: the branch is approved and funded, its status beyond that is not publicly established, and anyone telling you construction is underway should be asked where they got that.
Completion date: none published that we can verify. We are not going to estimate one.
That refusal is not caution for its own sake. Consider the record.
Phase 4’s three priority corridors were approved in March 2019 with a 2026 deadline. As of August 2026, none is fully complete. The Magenta Line extension has opened in three separate pieces — one station in January 2025, seven in March 2026 — and still has a 16.6 km gap under construction, currently expected late 2026. Sections of that same extension are now projected into 2027 and, under Phase 5A, 2028.
That is seven years and counting, on corridors that had priority status. The Lajpat Nagar–Saket corridor was approved five years after them, and it does not have priority status. Any date you see attached to it in property marketing is not coming from DMRC.
What It Changes, Locality by Locality
If and when it opens, the effects are real and specific.
Greater Kailash gains a third station. GK currently has two — Kailash Colony on the Violet Line and Greater Kailash on the Magenta Line, roughly 1.5 km apart and serving different halves of the colony. A GK-1 station on this corridor would sit in the part of the colony least well served today. For anyone weighing the address, what a third station would mean for GK buyers is a genuine change to the two-station problem rather than a marginal improvement.
Saket gains what it has never had: a station near where people actually live and shop. Saket’s existing Yellow Line station sits at Saidulajab on Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, serving the southern edge; the lettered blocks are closer to Malviya Nagar. This corridor puts stations at Saket District Centre — beside Select Citywalk and DLF Avenue — and at Saket G-Block, in the residential core. That is a direct fix for Saket’s metro coverage gap today, and arguably the single largest connectivity improvement in the corridor.
Chirag Delhi becomes an interchange rather than a through station, which changes its position in the network more than its position on a map suggests.
Lajpat Nagar becomes a triple interchange, joining a very short list.
Pushpa Bhawan and Pushp Vihar gain stations in an area currently dependent on road transport and the Saket stations.
Andrews Ganj picks up a station serving Ansal Plaza and the Khel Gaon Marg stretch.
The pattern is worth noting: this corridor is not connecting South Delhi to somewhere new. It is stitching together parts of South Delhi that are already on the network but poorly linked to each other, and giving the district centre and GK-1 the stations they lack.
Should It Change What You Do Now?
Short answer: almost certainly not.
This corridor was approved in March 2024, has no published completion date, and is not among the priority corridors — which were approved in 2019, carried a 2026 deadline, and are still incomplete seven years on. A corridor approved five years later, without priority status, is not going to beat that record.
If you are being shown a property at a premium because a station is coming, the question to ask is what happens if it opens in 2032 rather than 2028. On a rental decision with a two- or three-year horizon, the answer is that it does not affect you at all. On a purchase, you are being asked to pay today for a benefit with no delivery date, which means you are carrying all of the timing risk while the seller carries none.
What would justify factoring it in: a confirmed construction contract, visible site work, or a DMRC-published target. None of those is established for this branch today.
What would not: a station appearing on a marketing map, or the phrase “metro coming soon” in a listing.
The reasonable position is to treat the corridor as a genuine long-term positive for Greater Kailash, Saket, Chirag Delhi and Pushp Vihar, and to pay nothing extra for it now. If it arrives sooner than expected, you have gained something you did not pay for. If it slips — as Phase 4 already has — you have not lost anything.
For readers comparing addresses on connectivity that exists rather than connectivity that is planned, Malviya Nagar as an address already offers what several of these stations would provide, and comparing South Delhi’s residential areas on present-day access is a more reliable basis for a decision than a corridor map.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which stations are on the Lajpat Nagar–Saket G Block corridor?
Eight: Lajpat Nagar, Andrews Ganj, Greater Kailash-1, Chirag Delhi, Pushpa Bhawan, Saket District Centre, Pushp Vihar and Saket G-Block. All are elevated.
When will the Lajpat Nagar–Saket metro open?
No verifiable opening date has been published. The corridor was approved on 13 March 2024 and the foundation stone was laid that month, but the Golden Line’s public record still lists this branch as approved rather than under construction, and DMRC has published nothing we could find to settle it either way. Phase 4’s priority corridors, approved in 2019 with a 2026 deadline, remain incomplete — so treat any date you see elsewhere with scepticism.
Is the corridor elevated or underground?
All eight stations are elevated, across 8.385 km.
Which lines will it connect?
The Golden, Magenta, Pink and Violet lines. The interchange stations on this corridor are Lajpat Nagar, Chirag Delhi and Saket G-Block.
Will Greater Kailash get another metro station?
Yes, at Greater Kailash-1, which would be the colony’s third after Kailash Colony on the Violet Line and Greater Kailash on the Magenta Line — subject to the corridor being built.