GHAZIABAD: The union cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval for

being developed by

(NCRTC).

The DPR of the project has already been approved by UP government and the NCTRC is already carrying out pre-construction work such as

, road widening work, utility diversion work and pile load testing for the construction of this corridor.

The total project cost of this corridor has been pegged at Rs 30724 crore out of which UP government will have to share Rs 6500 crore. The Uttar Pradesh government recently allocated Rs 400 crore for Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut

,

The 82 Km Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor from

in Delhi till Modipuram in Meerut will have seven RRTS stations in Ghaziabad. The project is expected to be operational by 2024 with the daily ridership expected to be more than 8 lakh passengers. Once complete, high-speed trains with an average speed of 100km/hr will cover the 82km distance between Meerut and New Delhi via Ghaziabad in less than 55 minutes.

RRTS stations will be seamlessly integrated with other transport modes like Airport, Railway, Metro, ISBTs etc. and will be inter-operable ensuring that change of train is not required for moving from one RRTS corridor to another.

Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor is first of the three prioritized corridors planned for implementation in Phase-1. The other two are Delhi-Gurugram-Alwar and Delhi-Panipat Corridors.