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First bullet train on Mumbai-Ahmedabad route

  •   Tue, Jul 08 2014 01:36:47 PM

New Delhi, July 8 (IANS): Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda Tuesday said that the first dedicated bullet train project will be launched on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route for which many feasibility studies have been conducted.

"The Indian railways is on its way to achieve the long dream of the people of India to have bullet trains. The first such train project will come up on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route," Gowda said, presenting his maiden railway budget in the Lok Sabha.

The minister proposed an outlay of Rs.100 crore for infrastructure development for the projects.

"For the bullet train projects infrastructure upgradation is needed and for this an initial budgetary allowance of Rs.100 crore is proposed," Gowda said.

He added that other proposed routes for running the new bullet train services include Delhi-Agra, Delhi-Chandigarh, Mysore-Bangalore-Chennai, Mumbai-Goa and Hyderabad-Secunderabad.

Gowda also referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's idea of a "Diamond Quadrilateral" which aims to connect the four metros of the countries with high speed trains. The trains on these routes will have a speed of about 160km-200km per hour.

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  • RAJESH AMIN, MANGALORE/MAHARASHTRA

    Tue, Jul 08 2014

    our bullet dream is right , but what about the suburban local train problem where people are travelling like pigs , no concerned about it it should be solved with in minutes, if i had been a minister i would have solved this overcrowding & sub standard quality services of suburban local trains with in a year & Indian have watched it that due to ill qualified politicians we Indians are taken for granted , who talks of bullet trains but people are dying everyday due to overcrowding nobody wants to get rid of it then what is modi wave its same as that of congress who were talking of airports this & that but poor Indians didn't get anything out of it only the hand in gloves were benefited.

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