Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System Project (NDB-delhighaziabadmeerutr)

Countries
  • India
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Specific Location
Delhi
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Financial Institutions
  • New Development Bank (NDB)
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Project Status
Approved
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Bank Risk Rating
U
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Borrower
Government of India
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Transport
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 500.00 million
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Project Cost (USD)
$ 4,268.48 million
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Primary Source

Original disclosure @ NDB website

Updated in EWS Jul 8, 2020

Disclosed by Bank Jun 17, 2020


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Project Description
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Accorning to the bank website, "The Project comprises construction of a rapid rail corridor with a total length of about 82 km (68 km elevated and 14 km underground) with 24 stations. The Project involves state of the art technologies for rolling stock, signaling and telecom, etc. The RRTS will have a design speed of 180 km per hour and an operating speed of 160 km per hour, which will reduce the journey time from Delhi to Meerut to 60 minutes. The corridor will enable high passenger carrying capacity, passenger comfort and safety and multi-modal integration with other transport modes."

The project's implementing agency is National Capital Region Transport Corporation Limited.

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No contact information provided at time of disclosure.

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