After the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, Gujarat is all set to get a second high speed rail project on the Ahmedabad-Delhi route for which the railways ministry will undertake a survey and prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) informed Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. The Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail is the only sanctioned bullet train project in the country which is being executed with technical and financial assistance from Japan. The government has plans for seven more high speed rail projects which include Delhi-Varanasi, Delhi-Amritsar, Delhi-Ahmedabad, Mumbai-Nagpur, Mumbai-Hyderabad and Chennai Bengaluru-Mysuru and Varanasi-Howrah. Meanwhile, work on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad project is in progress with the government acquiring 1,193-hectares of land out of the required 1,396 hectares. All statutory clearances relating to wildlife, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and forests have been put in place. The entire project has been divided into 27 packages. As of now, 12 packages have been awarded, 3 are under evaluation, and tenders have been invited for 4 packages. Out of a total 352 km length in Gujarat and Dadra & Nagar Haveli, civil works have started in a 342-km stretch.
