17km Duhai-Sahibabad section of India’s first RRTS corridor to be operational March 2023

Commuters will be able to travel on the India’s first Rapid Rail corridor in over 3 years from now as the 17km-long Duhai-Sahibabad priority section of the 82-km-long Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor is expected to be operational by March 2023, an official said.

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• The entire Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor, spanning 82 km, will be operational by 2025, according to the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC).
• The NCRTC is the executing agency of the Rapid Rail Transit System (RRTS) project.
• The RRTS corridor would cut down the travel time between Delhi and Meerut to around 55 minutes from the current 3-4 hours by road.
• Already, the NCRTC has commenced the civil construction work on the 17-km-long Duhai-Sahibabad section.
• The Duhai-Sahibabad section will have 4 stations — Duhai, Guldhar, Ghaziabad and Sahibabad — besides a depot at Duhai.
• The opening of the Duhai-Sahibabad section will connect the Ghaziabad RRTS station to Delhi Metro’s Ghaziabad New Bus Adda station.
• Also, the Sahibabad RRTS station will integrate with the proposed Vasundhara Sector-2 metro station and bus terminal.

About Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor

• The Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor will have a total of 24 stations, including two depot-cum-stations at Duhai and Modipuram.
• The RRTS trains will have a design speed of 180 kmph, operational speed of 160 kmph and the average speed would be 100 kmph.
• The trains will be three times faster than the Delhi Metro trains in terms of operational speed, the official added.
• The distance between the stations will vary from 5 to 10 km.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor in March this year.