Govt speeds up ₹10 lakh-cr high speed rail corridors

The Railway Ministry has fast tracked the six high speed rail corridors involving an investment of ₹10 lakh crore and is conducting a detailed study for all the six rail corridors with a total length of 4,109 km, informed railway minister Piyush Goyal. The 9 corridors include Delhi–Varanasi via Noida, Agra and Kanpur, Delhi-Ahmedabad via Jaipur and Udaipur, Mumbai-Nagpur through Nasik, Mumbai Hyderabad via Pune, Chennai-Mysore through Bangalore and Delhi-Amritsar by Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar. He stated that the responsibility to prepare the DPR has been trusted to the National High-Speed Rail Corporation that is implementing the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project. The railway is undertaking measures for improving the speed of both passenger and freight trains. Currently, the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail corridor is the only rail project to be sanctioned and is under execution with technical and financial cooperation from the Government of Japan.