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Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath on Monday said that the Airport link of the Delhi Metro, which was temporarily shutdown, will be restarted after all corrective and safety issues are resolved. The decision to shutdown the link was taken on Saturday with an aim to fix the technical snag. The officials said that out of the 2100 bearings, there is a need to repair 230 of them. "The problems that were identified need to be confirmed first as safety concerns and then appropriate repair work, would follow," Nath told media here "In Metro, we are checking whether some of the issues which have been found, whether they are safety issues, and if they are safety issue, what needs to be done to correct it, so that the airport line can start," he added. The 23-kilometer Airport Metro Express connects Connaught Place with the new Terminal-3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. Built at a cost of about Rupees 57 billion, the line has six stations, and each coach has LCD screens showing flight information for the convenience of travelers. Half the compartment of every six-coach train is reserved for luggage. The Airport Metro fare ranges between rupees 20 and rupees 100. The corridor is the first in the country to come up on the Public-Private-Partnership mode with the Delhi Metro being responsible for civil work, while Reliance Infrastructure is to operate the line for 30 years and have a revenue share in the projest.