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Five train sets have arrived from the Gujarat plant and are standing at the Duhai depot. Testing has been completed, but the work of the stations is incomplete.
Delhi-Meerut Rapid Rail (RRTS), the dream project of the Government of India, has been delayed. India’s first regional rapid rail will not be able to run before June. Earlier it was claimed to start its operation from March-2023. NCRTC officials informed about this in an informal conversation with journalists at Sahibabad station on Friday. Although he did not give the reason for delaying this project, but it is believed that this has happened due to incomplete work. In such a situation, lakhs of people living in the cities of NCR will now have to wait a little longer to travel by rapid rail.
This town is the station of Rapid Rail being built in Muradnagar.
The first train was to run from Sahibabad to Duhai Depot.
The length of the Delhi-Meerut Rapid Rail Corridor is 82 km. In the first phase, it will be operated from Sahibabad station of Ghaziabad to Duhai depot. The distance of both these stations is 17 kms. A total of five stations have been built in this 17 km distance. Five train sets of Rapid Rail have arrived at Duhai Depot from Alstom Company’s plant at Sanvli, Gujarat. All their types of testing have also been almost completed.
To say, the rapid rail has been seen many times by running at a speed of 160, but this is not an official trial run.
Couldn’t even do trial run, work on stations incomplete
NCRTC had claimed that at the end of the new year, they would run the trial and start operating the rapid rail in phases before March-2023. But this was not possible. NCRTC has not been able to do the trial run till date. It is a different thing that Rapid Rail has been seen many times by running at a speed of 160 km per hour, but NCRTC does not consider it as a trial run.
Now the NCRTC officials have clearly said on Friday that it will not be able to start its operations in March-23. Right now some work is incomplete in the first phase. It will take time to complete it. In such a situation, a new hope has been raised to start operations from June. It is being told that about 25 to 30 percent work is still incomplete at all the five stations of the first phase. It will take time to complete.
