Under execution: Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR
The Railway Ministry is undertaking Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the six High Speed Rail (HSR) projects, parliament was told on 4 Mar 2020.
The National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) is undertaking the DPR for the Ministry.
The DPRs are on six corridors:
(i) Delhi – Noida – Agra – Kanpur – Lucknow- Varanasi (865 kms);
(ii) Delhi – Jaipur – Udaipur – Ahmedabad (886 kms);
(iii) Mumbai – Nasik – Nagpur (753 kms);
(iv) Mumbai – Pune – Hyderabad (711 kms);
(v) Chennai – Bangalore – Mysore (435 kms);
(vi) Delhi – Chandigarh – Ludhiana – Jalandhar – Amritsar (459 kms).
At present, Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (HSR) corridor is the only HSR Project under execution with the technical and financial cooperation from Government of Japan, said Minister Piyush Goyal.
The Railways is undertaking measures for improving speed of both passenger and freight trains, he elaborated.
Improvement in average speed of trains is a continuous exercise for Railways.
Further, the Government in August 2019 has approved two projects for raising of speed to 160 Kmph on existing New Delhi-Mumbai (including Vadodara-Ahmedabad) and New Delhi-Howrah (including Kanpur-Lucknow) routes.
In addition, the Railways have sanctioned a large number of capacity enhancement works over various zones which when commissioned, are bound to increase the speed of trains and cut travel time on various routes, said the Minister in a written reply to the house. fiinews.com
