NCRTC conducts ‘vendor meet’ with prospective construction partners

NCRTC conducted ‘Consultation With Prospective Construction Partners’ on December 7, 2017 in Delhi. The meet was attended by representatives of leading infrastructure majors including L&T, AFCONS, IRCON, IL&FS, TATA PROJECTS, Reliance Infrastructure Ltd, HCC, ITD, GPT Infra Projects Ltd, SAM India, Ranjit Buildcon etc. Industry leaders appreciated this initiative of NCRTC and shared insights, expectations, suggestions and ideas for successful and timely execution of RRTS project. NCRTC officials gave overview of the project with special emphasis on Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Smartline followed by an interactive session.  Addressing on the occasion, Vinay Kumar Singh, Managing Director, NCRTC elaborated that how NCRTC is going to accomplish the Government’s vision of improving the way NCR travels. He informed that this is the first of its kind project in India which will be connecting NCR with high speed trains (average speed-100kmph) coupled with high frequency (5 minutes) by using state of the art technology. He invited infrastructure firms to join hands with NCRTC in its endeavor to execute this project in an efficient way. While responding to various queries of the Construction partners, he emphasized that NCRTC and their prospective Construction partners should be on the same page for bringing people and places closer in NCR. National Capital Region Transport Corporation, a Joint Venture of Government of India and State Governments of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi, is mandated to design, construct, operate & maintain rail based Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) in the National Capital Region. Three RRTS corridors: Delhi-Meerut Smart Line, Delhi – Panipat Smart Line and Delhi – Alwar Smart Line have been prioritised for implementation in first phase. Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor will be the first corridor to be implemented for which pre-construction activities including geo-technical investigations, detailed design, utility shifting planning and traffic diversion planning have already started.