NEW DELHI (Metro Rail News): The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) will operate 32 additional Namo Bharat train trips on the Delhi-Meerut corridor on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, to handle the Bhai Dooj festival rush.
With the extra services, Namo Bharat trains will be available at intervals of less than 10 minutes, NCRTC said in a statement. Bhai Dooj falls on a working day this year, and the corporation expects heavier road traffic between Delhi, Ghaziabad and Meerut as office commuters and festival travellers share the same routes.
On Top of the Pollution-Season Trips
The festival services come on top of the 20 additional daily trips NCRTC has been running across the corridor since 4 November, after air quality in the National Capital Region slipped into the “very poor” category and the second stage of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) came into force. Those trips were added to draw commuters away from private vehicles.
NCRTC has added trips for festival peaks before. It ran 47 additional trips over Raksha Bandhan in August and 52 additional trips during the Kanwar Yatra between 30 July and 14 August.
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About the Corridor
The 82.15-km Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat corridor runs from Sarai Kale Khan in Delhi to Modipuram in Meerut, with 16 Namo Bharat stations and 9 Meerut Metro stations on the same infrastructure. It connects with the Delhi Metro, Indian Railways, inter-state bus terminals and city bus services at Sarai Kale Khan, Anand Vihar, New Ashok Nagar and Ghaziabad.
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