A’bad-Mumbai in two and half hours by train
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- Monday, 11 June 2012 10:20
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Gujarat Global News Network, Ahmedabad
With the UPA government giving the green signal to the proposal of a high-speed rail corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, the travel time between the two cities is bound to cut down to two-and-half hours from seven hours.
The proposed bullet train will run at the speed of 300 km per hour. Confirming the government’s nod to the project, a a senior Railway Ministry official said, “The 492-km-long Mumbai-Ahmedabad rail route is going to have the first bullet train as the proposed high-speed rail corridor has got the green signal in a high level meeting presided by the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh recently,”
At present, the fastest train between the two financial hubs is the Duronto, which takes 7 hours. The project is estimated to cost Rs60,000 crore the Railways is considering various options for its execution. “While one option is to execute it on a PPP model, the other is to opt for tying up with another country on government to government model...The funding pattern has not been decided yet,” the official said.
Along with the Ahmedabad – Mumbai high-speed corridor, six other high-speed corridors have got in-principle approval. They are Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar, Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai, Howrah-Haldia, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Trivandrum and Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Allahabad-Patna. The Railways has already taken up pre-feasibility study of these routes. Rail Budget 2012-13 had also proposed to take up the study for the a new corridor of Delhi-Jaipur-Ajmer-Jodhpur.
State governments and financial institutions are expected to be stakeholders of the high speed rail corridor project as these projects will be executed through PPP mode.
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