Tag: Bullet train project

Bullet train project: high-level Japanese team to visit India on Dec 25

The visit by Japanese dignitaries is significant as India is looking to a concrete commitment from Japan on completing the 508 km Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail link in part by 2026.

December 21, 2022

Satish Agnihorti removed from bullet train project

Officials in the Railway Board said that Agnihotri was facing allegations, including that of misuse of official position and diverting funds in an unauthorised manner to a private company.

July 8, 2022

Bullet Train Project: 7 cos willing to construct undersea tunnel

Trains plying on the route take over seven hours and planes about an hour.

January 24, 2021

Uddhav Thackeray asks PM Modi to rethink on Bullet Train project, terms it as ‘white-elephant’

Weeks after the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government came in power, the Rs 100,000 crore plus project which is considered to be a dream project of PM Modi was put under a review.

February 4, 2020

‘This govt is of common man, will review bullet train project’: Uddhav Thackeray

The priorities of the previous BJP-led government in the state, in which his party was a constituent, were not 'misplaced', he said while adding that there would be no vendetta politics.

December 2, 2019

Bullet train project delayed by 50 years until Modi came: Piyush Goyal

"We got a loan of Rs 1.08 lakh crore for 50 years at an interest of 0.1 per cent from Japan. We want to develop a network of speed rail in the country.

July 25, 2018

Dilution of land law for bullet train project: Ahmed Patel

Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel has accused the Gujarat government of implementing a “diluted” version of the Land Acquisition Act for land acquisition for the bullet-train project and doing away with farmers’ consent and impact assessment. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, released to the media on Wednesday, Patel sought his intervention and...

May 2, 2018

Bullet train project will be demonetisation-like move: Chidambaram

Congress leader P Chidambaram today criticised the bullet train project, saying it will be a demonetisation-like move “which will kill everything else”, and suggested that the money should instead be spent on improving rail safety. The former finance minister’s comments come a day after a stampede on a footbridge connecting Mumbai’s suburban railway stations of...

September 30, 2017

Modi, Abe lay foundation stone of bullet train project

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday laid the foundation stone for the ambitious Rs.1.08 lakh crore ($17 billion) 508-km Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed Rail here. Besides Modi and Abe, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha, Gujarat Governor O.P. Kohli, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and...

September 14, 2017

Work on bullet train project to start on September 14: Goyal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will on Thursday lay the foundation stone for India’s first bullet train project, connecting Mumbai and Ahmedabad, in Ahmedabad, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday. “The commencement of work on the country’s first High Speed Rail (Bullet train) project will begin on September 14...

September 11, 2017