Infrastructure
Duhai Depot RRTS Station Progress.
The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) is slated to conduct trial runs of RRTS trains from the first week of December.
Aiming to meet the deadline of commencing the commercial run by March next year, the trials will be held for three months on the 17 km priority section from Sahibabad to Duhai of the 82.15 km Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS Corridor.
Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Manoj Joshi inaugurated the NCRTC exhibition booth in the presence of Singh.
The exhibition booth of NCRTC, the agency implementing India’s First Regional Rail, is designed around the theme of commuter-centricity, the core principle of RRTS.
The highlight of this stall is the chance for the visitors to be among the first set of riders of RRTS. The visitors have to just scan a QR code which will direct them to a form to fill out. From these, NCRTC will select 20 lucky visitors who will then get an opportunity to be the first rider when the RRTS is operationalised in March 2023 in the Priority Section.
The Virtual Reality (VR) zone of the booth is also a point of attraction, through which the visitors can experience the feel of being at an actual RRTS station. The interactive touch screens placed at the stall showcase the various features of RRTS trains and the social and economic impact this project will have on the entire National Capital Region.
The full stretch of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor will have 25 stops and will likely be operational by 2025.