The country’s first bullet train will run in 2026. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced this at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit.
272 km track ready: Railway Minister
Talking to journalists, the Railway Minister said that work is going on at a fast pace on the bullet train running between Ahmedabad-Mumbai. He said that 272 kilometers of a viaduct or railway track had been prepared. The work is going on so fast that a 12-14 kilometer viaduct is being completed in a month. The biggest problem which was regarding approvals in Maharashtra has now been resolved after the formation of Eknath Shinde’s government, the land acquisition work has almost been completed.
BKC underground station structure ready
The Railway Minister said that the entire terminal station in Mumbai’s BKC (Bandra-Kurla Complex) is underground. There are big buildings above it. Its foundation structure is ready. The design work of the undersea tunnel to be built between Mumbai and Thane has been completed and construction work has started. The work of building 8 bridges on 8 rivers has also almost been completed. After this, the work of the depot in Sabarmati is also going on at a fast pace, which will be completed soon.
The dream of bullet train is now turning into reality: Railway Minister
He said that the dream of a bullet train is now turning into reality. The Railway Minister stressed that the Bullet Train Project should not be considered as a transportation and infrastructure project, it is a regional development project. Explaining this, he said that the bullet train runs between Tokyo and Osaka in Japan. There are five cities in between. Tokyo, Nagoya, Kubera, Kyoto and Osaka are five big economies in themselves, when a high-speed train connects them, then all five together become one economy.
Similarly, the first section built here is Mumbai-Thane-Vapi-Surat-Vadodara-Anand-Ahmedabad. All these economies together will become one economy. The convenience of high-speed trains is that any person can return to his home after working from one city to another.
