Overview
- YEIDA reaffirmed the Ghaziabad–Jewar corridor as a priority and said the final DPR has been forwarded to the Union housing ministry after a December 29 decision to keep the route unchanged.
- The DPR outlines a 72.44 km elevated integrated RRTS‑cum‑metro line with 22 stations, an estimated cost of ₹20,360 crore and a construction timeline of about five years, including a 1.1 km underground stretch inside the airport.
- The line runs from Siddharth Vihar in Ghaziabad to Noida International Airport via Greater Noida West and Surajpur, with multimodal links to the Delhi–Meerut RRTS, Delhi Metro’s Red Line and the Aqua Line extension.
- Planners propose absorbing roughly 10 km of the Aqua Line extension, including six stations and an interchange at Char Murti Chowk, to streamline transfers and reduce duplication.
- A separate 60 km Gurugram–Faridabad–Surajpur RRTS corridor has been proposed as a complementary feeder with Surajpur as an interchange, and combined links are estimated to cut IGI T3–Jewar travel time to about 60–70 minutes.