The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), the entity developing India’s first Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) project between Delhi and Meerut, will develop stations as retail hubs.
It has separate development plans for different stations as it aims to generate non-fare revenue from the Rs 30,000 crore project. The corporation has planned healthcare facilities, banquets, entertainment parts and food plazas at different stations.
NCRTC has appointed a consultant for the preparation of an Influence Zone Plan (IZP) at Jangpura and invited partners to provide consultancy services for the preparation of an IZP for Anand Vihar Multimodal Transit Hub.
Under the framework of the National Metro Rail Policy 2017, NCRTC is mandated to explore conventional and innovative sources of non-fare box revenue to boost financial sustainability.
One station of the line will have all the health-related facilities, including hospitals, diagnostic centres and medicine shops. Apart from this, one station will lease space for banquets. NCRTC has also planned entertainment and food zones and a shopping complex at stations.
In Delhi three RRTS stations -- Jangpura , Sarai Kale Khan and Anand Vihar, can be monetised as per TOD policy while in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the corporation can take benefit of the policy at every station.
The nodal agency has identified land parcels at station locations and other operational areas such as depots, stabling yards, additional concourses under elevated stations and over underground stations, air spaces above stations, and rail-crossovers for possible commercial development.