Summary:
After the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train, the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) on Tuesday begun work Mumbai-Nagpur bullet train with officials scrambling to gather documents and maps to prepare a detailed project report. "Tenders were floated for the work of survey, identification of utilities and power sourcing options for substations along the proposed Mumbai-Nashik-Nagpur High Speed Rail corridor. The Maharashtra Rail Infrastructure Development Company is also parallelly developing a parallel Pune-Nashik semi-high-speed corridor separately along with the existing railway corridor. Status of Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridorThe Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor is likely to be delayed and miss the existing deadline of 2023 due to land acquisition issues and Covid-19 pandemic. The 508.17-km network has been planned to be passing through three districts in Maharashtra (Mumbai, Thane, and Palghar) and eight districts in Gujarat (Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand, Kheda, and Ahmedabad)..