In a boost to connectivity in the National Capital Region (NCR), the Modi Government has allocated Rs 2,487 crore to Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS), projects for the next fiscal year, nearly three-fold increase over the 2019-20 financial year. In 2019-20, the Centre had allocated Rs 824 crore for the country’s first RRTS. The project Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut is being extended to Muzzaffarnagar.
According to the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), the implementing agency of the RRTS project, the civil construction of the first RRTS Corridor — Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor — is in full swing. “The first 82km stretch between Delhi, Ghaziabad and Meerut is under construction. The tender for Duhai to Shatabdipuram (Meerut) has been floated and will also be finalised soon. Tenders for rolling stock, rail supply and the RRTS’s first underground section between New Ashok Nagar in East Delhi and Sahibabad in Ghaziabad have also been floated,” officials of NCRTC said.