Good news for Indian People, As Indian government finally decided to start bullet train in India. The first dedicated bullet train project will be launched on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route for which many feasibility studies have been conducted. The Indian rail ways is on its way to achieve the long dream of the people of India to have bullet trains. The first such train project will come up on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route. New Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s have already given promise to Indian peoples for a diamond quadrilateral of bullet trains to connect the four major cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. A high-speed train will run at a maximum speed of 320km/h and cover 534km between the two cities in two hours. According to Railway officials in Mumbai, a lot of brainstorming has gone into taking the Mumbai-Ahmedabad train project forward as it involves Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Japan International Consortium is expected to complete the project feasibility report by 2015. However, trains are most likely to originate at Bandra Kurla Complex.Moreover, it has been decided that the corridor will not have more than five stations, against the initial plan for 11. The station’s location at Ahmedabad is yet to be finalized, but the train in all likelihood will start in Mumbai at BKC and travel to Thane (near Diva), before heading towards Palghar via Virar. It will then follow the existing alignment in Gujarat with halts at Surat, Vadodara and Ahmedabad.” The official said in Mumbai, the corridor will run underground between BKC and Thane. This project is going to be major challenge as apart from engineering challenges, Indian railways will also have to overcome other hurdles such as land acquisition, cooperation, relief and rehabilitation of project-affected people and raising of funds. The railways is keen to implement this project on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis with Maharashtra and Gujarat as stakeholders. Thane has been provided with an option to connect the bullet trains to Pune in future.” A pre-feasibility study for the Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad route was conducted by French consultancy firm Systra. Indian Railways, though, has decided to abandon the Pune-Mumbai leg of this stretch as it could turn out to be a loss-making proposition due to poor patronage. Indian Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda said that other proposed routes for running the new bullet train services include Delhi-Agra, Delhi-Chandigarh, Mysore-Bangalore-Chennai, Mumbai-Goa and Hyderabad-Secunderabad.
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