Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday, January 11, said the first bullet train service in India will be operational by 2026. Speaking at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit, the minister said 270 kms of work has been completed for the bullet train.
The National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) had on January 8 said it has completed 100% land acquisition for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Rail Corridor, popularly known as the bullet train project, across Gujarat, Maharashtra and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Vaishnaw also shared the status of land acquisition on X, saying the entire 1389.49 hectares of land required for the project has been acquired.
#BulletTrainProject
— Ashwini Vaishnaw (@AshwiniVaishnaw) January 8, 2024
Land acquisition -100%
Pier Casting - 268.5 Km
Girder Launching -120.4 Km pic.twitter.com/jiVwiDegrv
The high-speed rail line is being built between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
The NHSRCL said it has achieved a remarkable milestone with the completion of the first mountain tunnel 350 metres long and 12.6 metres in diameter located near Zaroli village in the Valsad district of Gujarat in just 10 months.
The high-speed rail line is being built using Japan's Shinkansen technology, and the project aims to create a high-frequency mass transportation system. The project has been funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) with a soft loan of Rs 88,000 crore from Japan.
The Rs 1.10 lakh crore project was expected to be completed by 2022 but faced hurdles in land acquisition.
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