In a major boost for regional mobility in the Delhi- National Capital Region (NCR), the Uttar Pradesh Government has approved the revised Detailed ProjectReport (DPR) of the Delhi-Meerut Ghaziabad Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor.
According to officials the Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the RRTS corridor with new section of the Metro (Red Line Dilshad Garden to new Bus Adda) corridor on 8th March.
This 82 km stretch with 22 stations between Delhi, Ghaziabad and Meerut. The distance will be covered in less than 60 minutes by high-speed, high-frequency, safe, reliable, comfortable and green public transit.
The decision to approve DPR was taken in a meeting held on Saturday. “Metro services with 12 stations on 18 kms. Stretch between Modipuram and Meerut South stations on RRTS infrastructure will meet the local mobility needs of Citizens of Meerut besides providing efficient regional connectivity,” said a Government official.
The RRTS corridor will further have major interchange facility with Metro Train at the most crowded place of Delhi such Sarai Kale Khan and New Ashok Nagar.
“RRTS stations will be seamlessly integrated with other transport modes like Airport, Railway, Metro, ISBTs etc. and will be inter-operable ensuring that change of train is not required for moving from one RRTS corridor to another,” said the official.
The trains will be equipped with modern features like CCTV surveillance, Mobile/Laptop Charging points, Luggage space etc. Besides, this these trains will also have a separate Business Class along with the Ladies coach.
“Further, joining city centre to city centre, RRTS trains will reduce pollution and road congestion taking more than one lakh private vehicles off-road. High speed mobility will also drive balanced socio-economic growth with increased economic activities and will improve quality of life of citizens,” said the official.
Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor is first of the three prioritized corridors planned for implementation in Phase-1. The other two are Delhi-Gurugram-Alwar and Delhi-Panipat Corridors.
The budget of the project is Rs 30,274 Crores and the Pre-construction activities such as Geo-Technical investigations, Pile Load Tests, Road Widening and Detailed Engineering have also started recently by National Capital Regional Transport Corporation (NCRTC) which is the implementing agency for the project. Tenders for the civil construction have already been invited.