New Delhi: The Delhi-Meerut regional rapid transit system corridor has achieved 24.8 per cent physical progress till February 28 and construction work is in full swing and on schedule, the government told Rajya Sabha on Monday. In reply to a written question, Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore said that the corridor is likely to be completed by June 2025.
"National Capital Region Transport Corporation Limited (NCRTC) has informed that construction work on the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor is in full swing and on schedule," he said. The minister said that the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) prepared a "Functional Plan on Transport for NCR-2032" which recommended eight RRTS corridors to connect various important towns of the NCR with high speed rail based commuter transit system.
These eight corridors include Delhi-Gurugram-Rewari-Alwar, Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut, Delhi-Sonipat-Panipat, Delhi-Faridabad-Ballabhgarh-Palwal, Delhi-Bahadurgarh-Rohtak, Delhi-Shahdara-Baraut, Ghaziabad-Khurja and Ghaziabad-Hapur. Kishore said that out of these, the task force constituted by the then Planning Commission prioritised three corridors -- Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut, Delhi-Gurugram-Rewari-Alwar and Delhi-Panipat.
