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If things go as planned, Delhi may soon become the first city in the country to have twin rail tunnels under a river.

New Delhi:  The tunnels will come up under the Yamuna for the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) that aims to link the capital with Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.

Sources in the Delhi government said that top officials have given their approval for the half-kilometre-long twin tunnels after the Union Urban Development Ministry revised the earlier design for the Delhi-Meerut link.

“The issue was referred to us once again and we have agreed to the new design for the underground section from Sarai Kale Khan to Anand Vihar,” said an official, aware of the discussions at Raj Niwas.

The underground section between Sarai Kale Khan and Anand Vihar would be about 10-km long and it would pass under the Akshardham Temple and the Commonwealth Games Village in east Delhi, he said.

Chief Secretary S K Srivastava attended a meeting with the Urban Development Ministry officials where he was informed that there would be a slight modification in the 90-km Delhi-Meerut link. He was later given a new plan which has now been approved.

At a high-level meeting, chaired by Meerut commissioner, officials approved the route of high-speed trains. Orbital trains will link Metro rail and high-speed trains. The meeting, also attended by officials of Ghaziabad, Noida and NCR Planning Board in Meerut, decided the merging point — Meerut road trisection in Ghaziabad — for first-phase high-speed trains and Orbital rail. The DPR for the phase of high-speed trains has already been prepared. 

Orbital trains will provide greater connectivity in Noida, Ghaziabad and other NCR areas. This new mode of transportation, serving commuters in an orbit, will connect the NCR with Delhi. And save a lot of travel time.

"Orbital trains will primarily move along the proposed Eastern-Western Peripheral Expressway. This will reduce traffic snarls in Delhi to a great extent. Heavy increase in traffic has made Delhi's periphery very chaotic. Orbital trains will bypass traffic bottlenecks," said a senior official.   

Noida and the proposed Greater Noida Metro are elevated. Officials are hopeful the design will help accommodate Orbital train on this route too. Once the facility starts Noida and Greater Noida will be connected to Alwar, Meerut, and Panipat.

Lakhs of passengers will be able to roam around the NCR without getting into Delhi. Road users will also be able to use the facility.

Tentative Orbital train stations will be Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Kondli, Bahadurgarh, Gurgaon, Faridabad.

The proposed high-speed trains will be a mass transit system connecting far flung areas of NCR to the central parts of NCR (Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, etc.).

It will have dedicated rail lines where no other train will run and it will provide fast and frequent train services.

Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/High-speed-train-routes-get-approval/Article1-638921.aspx