The Centre on Friday inaugurated a 17-kilometre priority section of the country’s first Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor service between Delhi and Meerut, being built at a cost of Rs 30,000 crore.
The ‘Namo Bharat’ train service, earlier called RapidX, connects Sahibabad and Duhai Depot in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while flagging off the RRTS service, said more such corridors will be launched in India in the coming years.
The Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS, the foundation stone for which was laid in March 2019,