Consultancy

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has a business development department for consultancy services.^[11] The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has served as the project consultant and has project reports (DPR) for every metro and monorail project in India, except the Kolkata Metro and Chennai MRTS, which were constructed before the formation of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.^[12] The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation also provides lighter consultancy operations, such as preparation of DPRs and feasibility reports for proposed systems in places such as Raipur, Amritsar and Nagpur.^[13] The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation also serves as consultant and prepared the DPR for the proposed Thiruvananthapuram - Mangalore High-Speed Passenger Corridor.

In September 2012, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation entered into a partnership with eight other international companies for management consulting for the Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit system. This was the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's first project outside India.^[14][15] The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation stated that its main responsibilities in the JV were the "finalisation of the organisational structure of the Jakarta Metro, recruitment of personnel, development of training facilities and the training of the employees for various categories required for commencing the operations".^[16]

In February 2014, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation was invited by the Government of Kuwait to act as a consultant for the proposed metro system in Kuwait City, Kuwait.^[13]

Implementation

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is involved with the implementation and/or construction of Kochi Metro, Jaipur Metro, Lucknow Metro, Hyderabad Metro and Patna Metro.^{[17][18][19][20]}

Delhi Metro Rail Academy

The Delhi Metro Rail Academy (erstwhile DMRC Training Institute; renamed to DMRA on 18 September 2019 after a major upgrade) is a dedicated training institute that was set up and inaugurated on 19th July 2002 in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's Shastri Park depot.^[21] It is the only metro rail training institute in South Asia.^[22] Over its history, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has trained over 63,000 of its trainees here, along with over 2,000 staff^[23] of many organizations, mainly metro rails, from both India and abroad. DMRA's international clients include Jakarta MRT, Indonesia and Dhaka Metro Rail, Bangladesh, while its Indian clients include Namma Metro, Kochi Metro, Chennai Metro, Jaipur Metro, Mumbai Metro, and many more metros and other organizations.^[21]

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi offers a one-year postgraduate diploma in metro technology. The course produces 25 executives of various streams, viz. Electrical, Civil, Architecture, Signalling, and Telecom, a year to staff metros across India. The Indian Institute of Technology Madras also offers a similar course for the Chennai Metro.^[24]