Delhi Traffic Police released an exhaustive advisory on 25 January ahead of the 77th Republic Day parade. Kartavya Path (Vijay Chowk to India Gate) is closed from 18:00 hrs on 25 January until the parade ends on 26 January. Key radial roads—Tilak Marg, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg and Netaji Subhash Marg—will see rolling barricades. Commercial vehicles, except those carrying essentials, are barred from entering the capital between 21:00 hrs on 25 January and 13:30 hrs on 26 January.
Metro services will run normally but entry/exit at stations bordering the parade route will be intermittently shut. Passengers connecting to the airport from Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad or Sonipat are instructed to allocate at least an extra 90 minutes of travel time and to use the Outer Ring Road or Delhi–Mumbai Expressway diversions.
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If any of your guests, executives or family members still need last-minute e-visas, extensions or document legalization before making the trip, VisaHQ can step in—its India portal (https://www.visahq.com/india/) offers quick turnaround options and live support, ensuring paperwork hiccups don’t compound the parade-day traffic snarl.
For inbound expatriates and NRIs arriving for board meetings scheduled around India’s 26 January holiday, the restrictions create a logistics pinch. Hotels along the Central Secretariat zone have scrambled to issue revised pick-up instructions, and ride-hailing apps have geofenced no-go areas, causing surge pricing on permissible routes.
Employers should alert assignees to carry both passport ID and event passes when moving through checkpoints, and to budget for potential late arrivals to client offices on 27 January as barricade removal often lags official timelines.
Metro services will run normally but entry/exit at stations bordering the parade route will be intermittently shut. Passengers connecting to the airport from Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad or Sonipat are instructed to allocate at least an extra 90 minutes of travel time and to use the Outer Ring Road or Delhi–Mumbai Expressway diversions.
If any of your guests, executives or family members still need last-minute e-visas, extensions or document legalization before making the trip, VisaHQ can step in—its India portal (https://www.visahq.com/india/) offers quick turnaround options and live support, ensuring paperwork hiccups don’t compound the parade-day traffic snarl.
For inbound expatriates and NRIs arriving for board meetings scheduled around India’s 26 January holiday, the restrictions create a logistics pinch. Hotels along the Central Secretariat zone have scrambled to issue revised pick-up instructions, and ride-hailing apps have geofenced no-go areas, causing surge pricing on permissible routes.
Employers should alert assignees to carry both passport ID and event passes when moving through checkpoints, and to budget for potential late arrivals to client offices on 27 January as barricade removal often lags official timelines.
