Govt floats tenders for 7 high-speed rail corridors

The Central government has invited tenders for the new Bullet train projects across the country and Railway Ministry directed the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) for preparing detailed project reports for all the seven corridors on a fast-track basis. These corridors include 886-km long Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor connecting the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet train corridor. Delhi would be connected to Mumbai via High-Speed Railway or Bullet Train. Other HSR corridors identified by the ministry are Delhi to Varanashi (865 km), Mumbai-Nagpur (753 km), Chennai-Mysore (435 km), Delhi-Amritsar (459 km), Mumbai-Hyderabad (711 km), and Varanasi to Howrah (760 km). Tenders for preparation of the Detailed Project Report have been floated for the 886-km long Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahmedabad HSR Corridor.