Haryana Government has decided to extend  SKK-Delhi Panipat Corridor of Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) upto Karnal for seamless transport facilities throughout the entire NCR.

Haryana share’s in SKK-Panipat RRTS corridor is around Rs 5,000 crore, i.e. 16 percent of the total cost.

A decision to this effect was taken in the meeting chaired by Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar regarding Implementation of SKK- Delhi-Panipat Corridor of  Regional Rapid Transit System(RRTS).

In the meeting, the CM was apprised that under the Functional Plan on Transport for NCR-2032, eight corridors of RRTS will be constructed.

 However, in the first phase,  three corridors will be constructed under Regional Rapid Transit System in NCR namely, Delhi-Meerut, Delhi-Panipat and Delhi-SNB.It was informed that a 103 km long Delhi-Panipat corridor will be constructed which will have 17 RRTS stations (including Sarai kale khan).  Under this project, earlier Panipat North Station was the last station,  however, the Chief Minister directed the officers concerned to extend this corridor upto Karnal with a provision for a station at Gharaunda  as well.

Khattar was apprised that the total alignment of these three RRTS corridors is 291.67 kilometers, out of which more than 50 percent is in Haryana, i.e, 149.31 Kilometers. Therefore after the completion of these corridors, the commuters of Gurugram, Rewari, Sonipat, Panipat, and Karnal would be largely benefited.

This corridor aims to connect Delhi to Sonipat, Gannaur, Samalkha, Panipat, and Karnal and is expected to cut down travel time and also bring environmental and economic benefits to the region.

It was informed that the RRTS stations and trains will be seamlessly integrated with other transport modes like Airport, Railway, Metro and ISBTs, etc. The Chief Minister was apprised that the RRTS stations will be inter-operable. Commuters would be able to travel from one corridor to another without interchanging the train.