new delhi, May 5
The Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat has crossed 3 crore passenger journeys within months of the commissioning of the entire corridor, marking a major milestone for new-age regional transit in the National Capital Region (NCR). “Over the past two years, it has steadily built commuter trust, now clearly reflected in the steady rise in ridership and more and more people are choosing it as a fast, safe, and comfortable way to travel,” a spokesperson of the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) said on Tuesday. On 22 February 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the entire Delhi-Ghaziabad- Meerut Namo Bharat corridor, along with Meerut Metro, to the nation. Since then, ridership has been rising steadily. Apart from Sundays, which see around 85,000 passengers, daily footfall on weekdays ranges between 90,000 and 1,14,000. Operations on the corridor first began on 21 October 2023 with the inauguration of a 17-km Priority Section between Sahibabad and Duhai Depot. In November 2023, after the first full month of operations, the section recorded a ridership of over 72,000.As the services were extended to Modinagar North in March 2024 and further to Meerut South in August 2024, the operational section expanded to 42 km with nine stations. With each extension, ridership kept steadily rising. By December 2024, average monthly ridership numbers had reached about 7 lakh, nearly ten times higher than the same period a year earlier.
