NE BUSINESS BUREAU
NEW DELHI, SEPT 1
The National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) on Tuesday invited its first set of tenders for the 886km-long Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor to kickstart preparations for formulating its detailed project report.
This corridor is among the eight high-speed networks that the Railways is planning across the country, one of which – the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail (HSR) – is under construction.
The tenders for the project which were floated on Tuesday include preparation of drawings of crossing bridges over rivers/canals/railways and roads (Expressway, NH and SH and major district roads) and general arrangement drawings (GADs) of proposed stations and maintenance depots, carrying out ridership study (traffic study) and data collection and associated survey work for DPR of the corridor.
The DPR will study the feasibility of these routes which includes land availability, alignment, and a study of the traffic potential there.
Apart from the Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor, the other seven are the Delhi-Noida-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi (865 km), the Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahmedabad (886 km) sections, Mumbai-Nashik-Nagpur (753 km), Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad (711 km), Chennai-Bangalore-Mysore (435 km), and the Delhi-Chandigarh-Ludhiana-Jalandhar-Amritsar (459 km) sections.
The NHSRCL has already started work for preparing a detailed project report (DPR) for the proposed Delhi-Varanasi HSR corridor. The 865 km long Delhi-Noida-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi rail corridor is one of the eight HSR passageways which will transform the Railways systems in the coming years with reducing the time duration of travel within a few major cities.
India’s bullet train project between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, the first high-speed corridor, will be completed by December 2023. Ninety percent of land acquisition work for the bullet train project will be completed in the next six months.
Rly minister reviews progress of dedicated freight corridor project work in 4 states
Days after writing to nine chief ministers on bottlenecks in their states hampering work on the dedicated freight corridor (DFC), Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday held a meeting with officials of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, and Maharashtra regarding the project.
Goyal directed the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) management team and the states to take all possible steps to speed up the pace of works on all sections of the Western DFC (1,504 route km) and Eastern DFC (1,856 route km).
At the review meeting, the progress of each individual state was discussed in detail, and instructions were given to ensure smooth progress by resolving all hindrances, a statement from the ministry said here.
During the meeting, progress made in the acquisition of land and construction of road overbridges (ROBs) in the states was discussed. The state officials were asked to expedite the process of arbitration and enforce the law in case of issues like obstruction of work, it said.
In order to fast-track the project, it was decided to hold regular meetings with all state officials and if required, on a daily basis.
In his letter to the Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Goyal highlighted how out of the 60 ROBs that were to be constructed, 32 were to be built by the state. However, only two have been built and the progress of the other 20 is slow.
Land acquisition for the approaches for 46 out of the 60 ROBs are also pending, he said.
