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The entire Namo Bharat Delhi-Meerut corridor will be operational very soon, National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) Managing Director Shalabh Goel said on Wednesday. Currently, a 55-km section of the corridor — from New Ashok Nagar station on the Delhi border to Meerut South on the Meerut border — is operational.
The remaining 27-km stretch — from New Ashok Nagar to Sarai Khan on the Delhi side, and from Meerut South to Modipuram on the Meerut side in Uttar Pradesh — will be inaugurated soon. Successful trial runs were conducted on the entire 82-km Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor in June.
The corridor currently sees a daily ridership of 60,000 and it is expected to take one lakh cars off the road, once fully operational.
It reaches a top operational speed of 160 kmph and will complete the journey in under an hour. Once fully operational, the system is expected to reduce travel time and ease congestion between Delhi and nearby urban centres.
The Namo Bharat corridor, developed at a cost of over Rs 30,000 crore, is the first of several RRTS lines planned to connect parts of the National Capital Region.
A section of the Delhi-Alwar corridor is set to get the green light from the Cabinet soon, Union Power and Housing Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said last week. The section of the corridor stretches from Sarai Kale Khan to Shahjahanpur–Neemrana–Behror (SNB), via Gurgaon and extends for 106 km.
Goel had told The Indian Express in March that the Delhi-Panipat corridor will also be sanctioned this year. A total of eight RRTS corridors are to be developed in the NCR.
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