PIB Clears Namo Bharat RRTS Extension from Bawal to Behror in Rajasthan

What was decided

The Public Investment Board (PIB) has cleared the extension of the Namo Bharat Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor currently under construction from Sarai Kale Khan to Bawal via Gurugram, taking it further into Rajasthan up to Behror.

The Namo Bharat RRTS corridor, currently being built from Sarai Kale Khan to Bawal via Gurugram, will now extend further into Rajasthan up to Behror, with the Public Investment Board (PIB) clearing the extension proposal. The clearance follows the standard Union government financial-approval process for a major infrastructure project of this scale.

How the clearance was processed

According to an Office Memorandum issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MRTS-I division) on July 9, the ministry forwarded a PIB Note — prepared after incorporating comments from the Department of Expenditure and other stakeholder ministries — for the Bawal-Behror extension, based on a supplementary Detailed Project Report submitted by the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) on May 9.

Gurugram MP and Union Minister of State Rao Inderjit Singh confirmed the file's progress: Singh said the extension file was sent for financial approval this July, and the Centre has now cleared it.

Operative details: length, stations, cost

The corridor will add roughly 11 km in Haryana and 25 km in Rajasthan, with four new stations between Bawal and Behror to be covered in 24 minutes. The extension is expected to raise the project cost by approximately Rs 8,000 crore.

This extension is distinct from the main Sarai Kale Khan-Bawal line already under construction, which runs 93.1 km with 55.2 km elevated and 37.9 km underground, serving 13 stations, at an estimated cost of Rs 323.3 billion (~Rs 32,330 crore).

Why the route was restored

The MP recalled that the RRTS corridor had originally been approved up to Neemrana-Behror years ago, but was subsequently scaled back — first to Dharuhera, then to Bawal — prompting sustained demands from social organisations and residents in Rajasthan to restore the Behror extension.

The original 2018 alignment approved by the NCRTC board had in fact envisaged the corridor running up to the Haryana-Rajasthan border near Shahjahanpur-Neemrana-Behror (SNB), before later versions truncated the terminus, first to Dharuhera and then to Bawal.

Practical effect and stated rationale

Singh said the move follows discussions at a recent NCR Planning Board meeting and will benefit thousands of workers employed in the Shahjahanpur-Neemrana-Behror industrial belt.

The Centre, he said, factored in the upcoming logistics hub at Nangal Chaudhary, planned expansion of IMT Bawal, and growth of the Khushkhera-Bhiwadi-Neemrana Investment Region while approving the extension.

For the wider Delhi-Alwar corridor, of which this extension forms a branch, NCRTC data shows the new Sarai Kale Khan-Bawal line alone is expected to cut journey time between Delhi and Bawal from around 3 hours to about 1 hour 7 minutes, taking an estimated 100,000 vehicles off the road corridor once operational.

Where this fits in the Namo Bharat network

Namo Bharat RRTS was originally cleared as three priority corridors by NCRTC in 2019 — Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut, Delhi-Sonipat-Panipat, and Delhi-Gurugram-SNB (Shahjahanpur-Neemrana-Behror)-Alwar. The Meerut corridor is now fully operational.

Delhi to Bawal Namo Bharat RRTS corridor is a part of the Delhi-Alwar RRTS corridor and Bawal to Behror extension is a branch line of the same route. The overall corridor is projected to be 196 km long connecting Sarai Kale Khan station in Delhi with Alwar in Rajasthan via Munrika, Aerocity, Gurugram and Rewari.

Status as of late July 2026

As of July 29, 2026, the Bawal-Behror extension has cleared the PIB financial-approval stage based on the July 9 MoHUA Office Memorandum; it has not yet been confirmed as approved by the Union Cabinet or as having started construction. The main Sarai Kale Khan-Bawal line remains under construction, while the Delhi-Meerut RRTS corridor is the only Namo Bharat line that is fully operational to date.