NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, MARCH 6
The Delhi–Varanasi bullet train corridor via Noida, Agra, and Kanpur could get priority among the six new corridors for which railway ministry has started preparing detailed project reports. The NHSRCL, which is executing the Ahmedabad-Mumbai high-speed corridor, has been tasked to prepare the reports. The entity has invited bids for carrying out environmental impact study only for 865 km Delhi-Varanasi corridor out of the six identified routes.
The other five corridors with a total length of 3,244 km are Delhi-Ahmedabad via Jaipur and Udaipur, Mumbai-Nagpur via Nasik, Mumbai-Hyderabad via Pune, Chennai-Mysore via Bangalore and Delhi-Amritsar via Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, and Amritsar.
The NHSRCL has also floated a tender for carrying out the survey, identification of overhead, overground, underground utilities and for identification of power sourcing options for substations along the proposed Delhi-Varanasi High-Speed Rail Corridor (DVHSR). The NHSRCL will use the same “LIDAR” technology for finalising the alignment which was used for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai corridor. Digital satellite imageries will also be used for zeroing down on the best feasible alignment, according to the bid documents.
