NHSRCL floats tenders for 741-km High-Speed Corridor

National High-Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL)

Indian Railways has floated tenders for conducting the survey for a 741 km long high-speed rail corridor from Mumbai to Nagpur for running a Bullet Train on the route. The high-speed rail corridor will pass through Nasik in Maharashtra. The project implementing agency, National High-Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL), has been entrusted by the railways to prepare DPR for seven new high-speed rail corridors. The tender has been issued for carrying out 'survey, identification of overhead, overground, underground utilities and identification of power sourcing options for substations' along the proposed Mumbai-Nasik-Nagpur High-Speed Rail Corridor. The national transporter has begun feasibility studies on seven other potential high-speed corridors to gauge their financial viability and estimated traffic they will attract. The Indian Railways is exploring whether the corridors would be viable to run high-speed Bullet Trains with speeds above 300 kmph. The seven proposed corridors are Delhi-Varanasi (865 km) Varanasi-Howrah (760 km), Delhi–Ahmedabad, Mumbai–Nagpur (741 km), Mumbai–Hyderabad (711 km), Chennai-Mysore (435 km) and Delhi–Amritsar (459 km). The length of the corridors is tentative and subject to change as per the actual survey. NHSRCL has also floated tenders related to data collection for the Delhi–Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor and the Delhi–Lucknow–Varanasi HSR corridor.