Commissioner Shri Surendra Kumar visits RRTS corridor along with officials of Ghaziabad and Meerut districts

Commissioner Shri Surendra Kumar visited the RRTS corridor along with officials of Ghaziabad and Meerut districts. DM Shri K Balaji, SDM Sardana, Shri Suraj Patel, SP Traffic, Shri Jitendra Kumar Srivastava, SP Rural and other officers were present in Meerut along with Shri Surendra Kumar.

  • He first saw the pillar construction process to be done under the construction of Modipuram station. 
  • He was accompanied by some school children from Meerut who saw and understood the work being done in the RRTS corridor.
  • After this, all the officers also saw the construction of Begumpul, Bhaisali and Meerut Central stations via Meerut North, Darauli and MES Colony. 
  • In the end, looking at the other station of the corridor in Meerut, everyone saw the casting yard located at Shatabdi Nagar.
  • The second team led by Ghaziabad District Magistrate Shri Rakesh Kumar Singh, first visited the Anand Vihar RRTS station site.
  • Thereafter, the team visited the casting yard which is located in Karkardooma forming the tunnel segment. 
  • After that, the team visited Ghaziabad station. 
  • This team from Ghaziabad then oversaw the construction work of the corridor from Ghaziabad to Meerut.

Recent Update:

Shri Vinay Kumar Singh, MD, NCRTC, along with Shri Mahendra Kumar, Director (Electrical & Rolling Stock) and other senior officers, recently, visited the manufacturing plant of RRTS train sets at Savli (Vadodra district), Gujarat. Under the Make in India guidelines, 100% trainsets for the country’s first RRTS are being manufactured in India. These world-class train sets are being manufactured at a manufacturing facility of M/S Alstom (erstwhile Bombardier) located in Savli, Gujrat.

  • The delivery of these semi high-speed first of its kind aerodynamic train sets, with distributed power, will start in the coming months. 
  • This year, NCRTC will begin trial runs on the Priority Section of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor.
  • At the plant, NCRTC team reviewed the entire gamut of the activities for manufacturing of 6-car prototype RRTS Train. 
  • All the 6 cars of the first train set are in different stages of final assembly. He also visited the bogie manufacturing and shell erection facility of the factory. 
  • Factory officials explained about their preparation for testing of individual cars and complete train set. 
  • Shri Singh expressed satisfaction on the progress as all the key activities are progressing as per the scheduled timelines.
  • The team also visited the Propulsion factory at Maneja, where traction/auxiliary converters/inverters were in the process of manufacturing and testing. 
  • During the visit, Shri Singh interacted with the diverse teams working at the plant and closely took note of the processes and systems being followed.
  • He appreciated the committed efforts of the teams at the plant and the adherence to safety and quality protocols.
  • The RRTS trains are designed keeping in mind high-acceleration and high-deceleration that these trains will need to undergo given the operational speed of 160 kmph and stations at every 5-10 km. 
  • The RRTS train sets will be first of its kind in India with a design speed of 180 kmph. 
  • The manufacturing facility at Savli will be delivering a total of 210 cars (40 train sets) for the first RRTS corridor. 
  • This includes 30 train sets of 6 cars each for operating regional transit services on the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor and 10 trainsets of 3 cars each for local transit services in Meerut.
  • Keeping the convenience of commuters in mind, the modern RRTS trains will have ergonomically designed 2×2 transverse seating, comfortable standing space, luggage racks, CCTV cameras, laptop/mobile charging facility, dynamic route maps, auto control ambient lighting system and other amenities. 
  • The air-conditioned RRTS trains will have Standard as well as Premium class (one coach per train) along with one coach reserved for women passengers.

About Delhi-Meerut RRTS Corridor:

  • The Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor is approximately 82 km long corridor with 25 stations, which will cover the distance from Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi to Modipuram in Meerut in about 60 minutes (Currently, it takes around 3 hours to commute from Delhi to Meerut).
  • The total project completion cost of Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor is about INR 30274 Crore.
  • RRTS is a rail based high-speed transit system with a design speed of 180 kmph and an average speed of 100 kmph.
  • Once operational, it will be the fastest, most comfortable and safest mode of commuter transport in NCR.

Source: NCRTC-Press Release