In a post on X, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, “‘Make in India’ powers the Bullet Train project. Installation of overhead electrification masts is progressing well on the Mumbai–Ahmedabad Bullet Train project.”
The breakthrough has been achieved in an approximately 1.5 km long mountain tunnel (MT-5), among the longest in Palghar district, located between Virar and Boisar bullet train stations.
The Prime Minister used the historic occasion in Dediapada, Gujarat, to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for significant infrastructure and development projects valued at over Rs 9,700 crore, dedicated to tribal welfare and national progress.
The project is one of India's most ambitious infrastructure initiatives, aiming to revolutionize inter-city travel by reducing travel time between Mumbai and Ahmedabad to just two hours.
The 508 km-long Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor is India's first bullet train project.
Trains plying on the route take over seven hours and planes about an hour.
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.
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.
"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.
Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel has accused the Gujarat government of implementing a “diluted” version of the Land Acquisition Act…
