Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the priority section of the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) Corridor at the Sahibabad RAPIDX station in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. The first RAPIDX train on the 17-km priority section will be flagged off from Sahibabad to Duhai Depot.
Meanwhile, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced on Thursday that RAPIDX trains will be known as 'Namo Bharat'. The trains will start plying through the corridor from Saturday, a day after its inauguration.
Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced that RRTS trains will be known as 'Namo Bharat'. "The priority corridor of the RRTS project related to the aspirations of crores of people is ready to get on track. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate it to the nation on October 20. The Regional Rapid Transit System of the country will be known as 'Namo Bharat'," he said.
The Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor is being developed at a cost of more than Rs 30,000 crore and will connect Delhi to Meerut with a travel time of less than an hour through urban centres of Ghaziabad, Muradnagar and Modinagar, the PMO had said. The RRTS is a state-of-the-art regional mobility solution and is comparable to the best in the world, it claimed.
A public programme is also being held in Sahibabad wherein the Prime Minister will address. The PMO had called the RRTS a "transformational" regional development initiative, designed to provide high-speed trains for intercity commuting every 15 minutes.
It had noted that a total of eight RRTS corridors have been identified for development in the National Capital Region, out of which three corridors have been prioritised to be implemented in Phase-I -- Delhi Ghaziabad Meerut, Delhi-Gurugram-SNB-Alwar and Delhi-Panipat.
The NaMo trains are indigenously manufactured with a designed speed potential of 180 kmph and an operational speed potential of 160 kmph. They are fully air-conditioned with enough safety features.
The priority section of the RRTS Corridor between Sahibabad and Duhai Depot has five stations -- Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, Guldhar, Duhai and Duhai Depot. The foundation stone for the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor was laid by Prime Minister Modi on March 8, 2019.
