'100 pc land acquisition completed for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project'

The National HighSpeed Rail Corporation Limited NHSRCL on Monday said it has completed 100 per cent land acquisition for the MumbaiAhmedabad Rail Corridor popularly known as the bullet train project across Gujarat Maharashtra and Dadra and Nagar HaveliRailways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw also shared the status of land acquisition on X saying the entire 138949 hectares of land required for the project has been acquiredThe highspeed rail line is being built between Mumbai and AhmedabadThe NHSRCL in a release said that all civil contracts for the project were awarded for Gujarat and Maharashtra while 1204 km of girders had been launched and 271 km of pier casting completedThe laying of the first reinforced concrete RC track bed for the MAHSR corridor track system as used in Japanese Shinkansen has started in Surat and Anand This is for the first time the Jslab ballastless track system is being used in India the release statedThe NHSRCL said it has achieved a remarkable milestone with the completion of the first mountain tunnel 350 metres long and 126 metres in diameter located near Zaroli village in the Valsad district of Gujarat in just 10 monthsThe first steel bridge spanning 70 meters and weighing 673 MT was erected across NH 53 in Surat and 16 such bridges out of 28 are in various stages of fabrication it saidThe bridge construction has been completed on six rivers out of 24 on the MAHSR corridor at Par Valsad district Purna Navsari district Mindhola Navsari district Ambika Navsari district Auranga Valsad district and Venganiya Navsari district the release statedThe work on the Narmada Tapti Mahi and Sabarmati rivers is underway it addedAs per the release noise barriers are being erected on either side of the viaduct to mitigate the noise generated by the train and civil structures during operationsWork has started for Indias first 7 km undersea rail tunnel which is a part of the 21 kmlong tunnel between the Bandra Kurla Complex and Shilphata in Maharashtra and excavation works for the construction of Mumbai HSR station has begun it saidHSR stations in Gujarats Vapi Bilimora Surat Bharuch Anand Vadodara Ahmedabad and Sabarmati are in various stages of construction the NHSRCL saidThe highspeed rail line is being built using Japans Shinkansen technology and the project aims to create a highfrequency mass transportation systemThe project has been funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency JICA with a soft loan of Rs 88000 crore from JapanThe Rs 110 lakh crore project was expected to be completed by 2022 but faced hurdles in land acquisition The government has set a target to run the first phase of the bullet train between Surat and Bilimora in south Gujarat by 2026This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever