Centre plans 7 more bullet train projects at Rs 10-trillion cost

The plan for the new corridors comes amid reports that the commissioning of the first bullet train project will be postponed from December 2023 to October 2028

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Shine Jacob  |  New Delhi 

The government is planning to invest Rs 10 trillion into seven new bullet train projects across the country even as the Covid-19 pandemic is set to delay the first such high-speed project — Mumbai to Ahmedabad — in India.

The new routes will cover a total of 4,869 kilometres (km), including Delhi-Varanasi (865 km), Mumbai-Nagpur (753 km), Delhi-Ahmedabad (886 km), Chennai-Mysore (435 km), Delhi-Amritsar (459 km), Mumbai-Hyderabad (711 km) and Varanasi-Howrah (760 km). The Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project covers a stretch of 508.17 km and is estimated to ...

First Published: Mon, September 14 2020. 06:04 IST