NHSRCL floats tender for Mumbai-Hyderabad HSR corridor

The National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has floated tender for preparing a detailed project report (DPR) for the Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad high-speed railway corridor project. The project will reduce travel time by 50%. Currently, Central Railway (CR) operates Hussainsagar Express, which is the fastest train between Mumbai and Hyderabad taking 13 hours to complete the 711-km journey. The DPR will include identification of land requirements, number of railway stations, construction of station premises, identifying overhead and underground utilities. The survey will include identification of power sourcing for the railway corridor project and will also include complete information about the project. Once the DPR is prepared, the process to acquire land will begin. Apart from the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed railway corridor, seven other high-speed corridors will be constructed by NHSRCL. The corridors include Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad (767km), Delhi-Varanasi (865km), Mumbai-Nagpur (753km), Delhi-Ahmedabad (886km), Chennai- Bengaluru-Mysore (435km), Delhi-Amritsar (459km) and Varanasi-Patna-Howrah (760km).