Bullet Train Updates: Railway officials are working 24X7 to deliver the first bullet train to India by 2026. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav recently visited the site of the bullet train project and updated the netizens about the progress of the project. Vaishnav shared an ‘onsite review’ of the bullet train project at Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) along with photographs of the construction site on his official Twitter handle.
moving forward with speed #MAHSR #Pleasure #Gujarat, #bullet train #infra4india pic.twitter.com/xmVwINFKru— ashwini vaishnav (@ashwini vaishnav) 30 July 2022
Posting a video of the project under construction, Vaishnav said in a tweet, “Onsite review of bullet train project at BKC in Mumbai.” Another of his tweets read.
Onsite review of bullet train project at BKC in Mumbai. pic.twitter.com/wP2OaGD1Gq— ashwini vaishnav (@ashwini vaishnav) 30 July 2022
Earlier this year, Vaishnav announced that India may get its first operational bullet train by the year 2026. He mentioned that good progress is being made in the commissioning of India’s first bullet train between Surat and Bilimora in Gujarat in 2026.
“We are targeting to run the first bullet train between Surat and Bilimora in 2026. The progress is very good and we are confident of running the train by that time,” he said in an official statement.
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Bilimora is a town in Navsari district of South Gujarat. The project aims to run a bullet train at a speed of 320 kmph on the High Speed Rail (HSR) corridor between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, covering a distance of 508 km and 12 stations.
The bullet train is expected to reduce the travel time between the two cities from the current six hours to around three hours. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is funding 81 per cent of the project cost, which is estimated at Rs 1.1 lakh crore.