RRTS Update: Meerut’s longest tunnel on the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor has a successful breakthrough.

Meerut’s longest tunnel on the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor recently had a successful breakthrough.

More Details:

  • Sudarshan 8.1, the tunnel boring machine, constructing this tunnel, successfully completed the construction of an about 2 km long tunnel between Bhainsali to Meerut Central Station and made a breakthrough through the tunnel retrieving shaft built at Meerut Central Station.

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.

About NCRTC:

  • National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) is a Joint Venture of Government of India and State Governments of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan & Uttar Pradesh and is mandated for designing, developing, implementing, financing, operating and maintaining Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) projects in the National Capital Region (NCR) to provide comfortable and fast transit to NCR towns and meet the high growth in transport demand.

Source: NCRTC- Press Release | Images Credit: NCRTC

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