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Drilling Begins For Construction Of India’s First Undersea Bullet Train Corridor
Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe shake hands in front of a shinkansen train. (JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images)
Test drills for the construction of India’s first undersea bullet train route has commenced, reported the Economic Times. Stretching over 7km, this route will be a part of India’s first bullet train project, the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor. The construction of the corridor is expected to begin in 2018.
While a large section of the 508km-long corridor will be on elevated track, the entire stretch will have multiple underground and underwater passages. An elevated corridor has been chosen to prevent extra cost incurred in building underpasses and acquiring land.
In December 2016, the railway ministry and National High-Speed Rail Corporation (HNSRC) signed a tripartite pact with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the development of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor. The project will be completed at a cost of approximately Rs 1 lakh crore. Japan has agreed to fund 80 per cent of the project through a soft loan of Rs 79,000 crore.
Note: The copy has been updated to more accurately describe the nature of drilling being undertaken.
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