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The Delhi Airport Metro Express line is expected to resume operations before Diwali, an official said.The services on Delhi Airport Metro line was shut down in July over safety concerns."Repair work on the Airport Metro Express line is almost over. We have to get the safety clearances and expect the line to be operational before Diwali," Mangu Singh, managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), said on Saturday.The Airport Metro Express line, India's first public-private partnership Metro project, suspended its services July 8 after structural faults were detected.As part of the agreement, on which the line was to be operated, DMRC was to carry out civil works and a Reliance Infrastructure-led consortium was to operate the line for 30 years and share the revenue.Mangu Singh said that the Reliance Infrastructure has served a notice to terminate its concession agreement with DMRC.The urban development ministry had set up a committee comprising officials from the Indian Railways, Delhi Metro and Reliance Infrastructure to look into the nature of the defects.