National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) on Monday said it has 100 per cent completed the land acquisition work for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Rail Corridor (MHRC) in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
It will be surprising to know that five and a half years after the first notification for land acquisition was issued, the government has achieved 100% land acquisition for the country’s first high-speed rail (bullet train) project between Ahmedabad and Mumbai.
Making the announcement on Monday, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said the Railways has acquired 1,389.5 hectares of land for the major project in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. A high-speed rail line is being constructed between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
NHSRCL said in a release that all contracts for the project were awarded to Gujarat and Maharashtra while 120.4 km of girders have been laid and 271 km of pillars have been installed.
According to the release, “The work of laying Reinforced Concrete (RC) track bed used in Japanese Shinkansen for MHRC corridor track system has also started in Surat and Anand. This is the first time the J-slab ballastless track system is being used in India.”
NHSRCL said that in just 10 months, the construction of the first ‘Mountain Tunnel’ of 12.6 meter diameter and 350 meter length has been completed near Jaroli village in Valsad district of Gujarat.
According to the release, the first steel bridge measuring 70 meters long and weighing 673 metric tonnes has been built on the national highway in Surat district of Gujarat. Also, construction of 16 out of 28 such bridges is in various stages.
According to the release, construction work on bridges on six out of 24 rivers on the MAHSR corridor has been completed, including Par (Valsad district), Purna (Navsari district), Mindhola (Navsari district), Ambika (Navsari district), Aurangabad (Navsari district). Valsad district) and Vengania (Navsari district).
The release said that work is going on on Narmada, Tapti, Mahi and Sabarmati rivers. According to the release, work on India’s first seven kilometer long undersea rail tunnel has started.
This tunnel is part of the 21 km long tunnel between Bandra Kurla Complex and Shilphata in Maharashtra and excavation work has also started for the construction of Mumbai HSR station.
NHSRCL said HSR stations at Vapi, Bilimora, Surat, Bharuch, Anand, Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Sabarmati in Gujarat are in various stages of construction.
According to the release, the Rs 1.10 lakh crore project was expected to be completed by 2022 but faced several hurdles regarding land acquisition. The government aims to launch the first phase of the bullet train between Surat and Bilimora in South Gujarat by 2026.
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