New Delhi: The Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday that “Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be place the foundation stone on Thursday for India’s first bullet train project, connecting Mumbai and Ahmedabad, in Ahmedabad, The inauguration of work on the country’s first High Speed Rail (Bullet train) project will begin on September 14 in Ahmedabad, adding that the bullet train technology would revolutionize and transform the transport sector, This will be a historical moment as India will gets it first bullet train, It shall also benefit the farmers for transportation of agricultural produce in a fast mode, The Railway Minister said that the high-speed rail was visualize by PM Modi to take Indian Railways towards most modern technologies like developed countries, The 508-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project will involve an estimated cost of Rs.1,10,000 crore, Out of this Rs. 1,10,000 crore, Japan is giving a loan of Rs. 88thousand crores, 92 per cent of the route will be elevated, of which seven km will be under the sea.
The Infra Advisor to the Indian Railways ,Sushant Mishra, said that Japan was granted the contract because of having some knowledge and idea on the project as they are implemented in their countries, About 825 hectares of land need to be purchase for the project, total 12 stations have been planned On the Ahmedabad-Mumbai route, that include Mumbai, Thane, Virar, Boisar, Vapi, Bilimora, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand, Ahmedabad and Sabarmati, one of the officials said that, the operating speed of the bullet train will be 320 kilometers per hour and maximum speed will be 350 kilometers per hour, 24 high-speed trains will be imported from Japan and then rest of it will be manufactured in India.
