Delhi–Alwar Regional Rapid Transit System (Delhi–Alwar RRTS) is a 164 km long under-construction semi-high speed rail corridor connecting

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

Gurgaon Gurgaon (pronunciation: �ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: �ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...

Rewari Rewari is a city and a Municipal Council in Rewari district in the Indian state of Haryana. King of Rewari is Rao Onkar Singh.It is located in south-west Haryana around 82 km from Delhi

and

Alwar Alwar (Pronunciation: Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu, �lʋəɾ is a city located in India's National Capital Region (India), National Capital Region and the administrative headquarters of Alwar district, Alwar District in the state of Rajasthan. ...

. It is one of the three rapid-rail corridors planned under Phase-1 of the Rapid Rail Transport System of the

National Capital Region Transport Corporation The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) is a joint venture company of the Government of India and the states of Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi. The NCRTC is mandated with implementing the Regional Rapid Transit ...

(NCRTC). With maximum speed of 160 km/h and average speed of 105 km/h, the distance between Delhi and Alwar will be covered in 104 minutes. The project is expected to cost 37,000 crores. The Phase-I construction is expected to be complete by December 2024.Big news for Delhi-NCR! Delhi-Alwar rapid rail transit Phase-1 corridor approved; how it will benefit
Financial express, Dec 2018.

History

The

National Capital Region Planning Board The National Capital Region (NCR) is a planning region centred upon the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi in India. It encompasses Delhi and several districts surrounding it from the states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The N ...

(NCRPB) as part of its Integrated Transportation Plan 2032 identified eight rail based rapid transit corridors to improve the efficacy of transportation system in the NCR. These were: # Delhi - Gurgaon - Rewari - Alwar # Delhi - Ghaziabad - Meerut # Delhi - Sonipat - Panipat # Delhi - Faridabad - Ballabhgarh - Palwal # Delhi - Bahadurgarh - Rohtak # Delhi - Shahadra - Baraut # Ghaziabad - Khurja # Ghaziabad - Hapur Of these Delhi-Alwar, Delhi-Panipat and Delhi-Meerut are to be constructed in the first phase. The Urban Mass Transit Company was given the job of conducting a feasibility study on 23 March 2010. The study thus submitted was approved by the Planning Board in 2012. The contract was then transferred to NCRTC on 18 January 2017 to carry the study forward. On 15 June 2018, the 100 km long first phase of the project from Hazrat Nizamuddin to Shahjahanpur-Neemrana-Behror, at an estimated cost of 25,000 crore, was approved by the

Haryana government The Government of Haryana, also known as the State Government of Haryana, or locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Haryana and its 22 districts. It consists of an executive, ceremonially led ...

Construction

Construction of Delhi-Alwar route with total 22 stations in will be completed in the following three construction phases and a pre-construction phase:Tender floated for construction of Rapid Rail
Daily Pioneer, 25 December 2018. * Pre-construction phase - January 2019 to December 2019: Pre-construction activities such as Pile Loading Test and Geo-Technical Survey for one year from January 2019 to December 2019. * Phase-1 (Delhi to SNB) - January 2020 to December 2024: The 106 km Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi to Gurgaon to SNB (Shahjahanpur-Neemrana-Behror Urban Complex) route, of which 75 km is in Haryana. Initial 35 km with 5 stations will be underground mostly in Delhi and Gurgaon, and subsequent 71 km route with 11 stations will be overground in Haryana. To be completed by 2024. In April 2020, GR Infrastructure emerged as the lowest bidder for package 1: IDPL Complex Ramp - Rajiv Chowk Ramp with 3 stations. * Phase-2 (SNB to Sotanala) - ?: stations en route include Shahjahanpur, Neemrana and Behror. * Phase-3 (Sotanala to Alwar) - ?: All in Rajasthan.

Stations

There will be total 22 stations in total; 16 (11 elevated and 5 underground) will be built in the first phase and the rest in later phases.

Status updates

* June 2018: Final

Detailed Project Report A project plan, according to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), is: "...a formal, approved document used to guide both ''project execution'' and ''project control''. The primary uses of the project plan are to document planning ass ...

(DPR) of the project is approved by the

Government of Haryana The Government of Haryana, also known as the State Government of Haryana, or locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Haryana and its 22 districts. It consists of an executive, ceremonially led ...

. * December 2018: The Phase-I construction project proposal for

Shahjahanpur Shahjahanpur () is a municipal corporation, town and district headquarters of Shahjahanpur District in Uttar Pradesh, India. The city is between Bareilly and Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. History Shahjahanpur was established by Dil ...

Neemrana Neemrana is an ancient historical town in Alwar district of Rajasthan, India, from Alwar city, from New Delhi and from Jaipur on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in Neemrana tehsil. It is between Behror and Shahajahanpur. Neemrana is an industria ...

Behror Behror () is a city in the Alwar district of Rajasthan. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Behror Tehsil. Situated 120 km south-west of national capital, New Delhi, and part of the National Capital Region, it al ...

stretch is approved by NCRTC. * February 2019: The Government of Haryana approved the project. * June 2019: The

Government of Rajasthan The Government of Rajasthan is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Rajasthan and its 33 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Rajasthan, a judiciary and a legislative. Jaipur is the capital of Raja ...

approved the project. * November 2019: Bids for the construction of the Gurgaon section of the project were invited. * September 2020: Construction started on a 10 km stretch in Gurgaon. * November 2021: Work on the project's key stretch awaits centre's nod. * May 2022: Pre-construction work begins on the project's corridor in Gurgaon.

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