The Government has allocated ₹4,710 crores to the country’s first Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) project in the union budget. Construction work on the entire 82 Km long Delhi-Ghaziabad Meerut RRTS corridor is in full swing. The corridor will have 25 stations, including two depots and one stabling yard. More than 14,000 workers and 1100 engineers are working day and night at sites. Despite the challenges brought in by the COVID-19 pandemic, the progress of the project has been as per scheduled timelines. So far, 16 km viaduct of priority section, 1200 piers, and 9,900 piles have been concreted. Foundation work has been completed for 56 km of the corridor. The 17 km priority section between Sahibabad to Duhai is scheduled to be operational by March 2023 and trial runs are expected to begin this year and the complete corridor will be opened to the public by 2025. RRTS is a strategic investment of the governments to transform the mobility in NCR in line with the GatiShakti master plan and the continued allocation to RRTS reinforces the government’s focus on infrastructure investment to catalyze the economic revival after the impact of the pandemic.
