Abstract
This chapter is a study of the historical development of the Delhi metro rail and the National Capital Region in India. It traces the history of the Delhi metro rail as conceived in the Five-year Centralized Plans, and National Development Council meetings and its context in the objectives of the state and central governments to develop the National Capital Region. Both persisted as India moved from a centralised to market economy through the narrative necessitating them in decongesting Delhi and developing discrete satellite towns to absorb the influx of urban migrants to providing better connectivity between Delhi and its surrounding areas for economic growth. Despite the changing pattern of growth of the National Capital Region from planned to entrepreneurial, the metro rail as a viable and inexpensive public mass transport option endures and raises the question of why there is a shift towards financially nonprofitable but publicly beneficial rail transport projects in the development of mega-regions.
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