High speed train corridor still under planning: Minister
25 Aug 2007
During the Budget speech 2007-08, the finance minister had stated that the ministry of railways would conduct pre feasibility studies for construction of high-speed passenger corridors equipped with state of the art signalling and train control systems, for running high speed trains at the speed of 300 to 350 kms per hour.
It had been proposed that one each such high-speed passenger corridor would be set up in the northern, western, southern and eastern regions of the country.
Accordingly, Indian Railways approached a number of state governments to ascertain their their willingness to participate in pre-feasibility studies. The governments of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal agreed in principle to participate in any pre-feasibility studies required to be conducted.
The
ministry of railways has also conducted financial and
economic analysis for Mumbai- Ahmedabad and Delhi-Amritsar
high-speed rail corridors.
Minister
of state for railways, R Velu yesterday said in a written
reply in the Rajya Sabha that as this proposal was in
its initial stages, it was not possible to predict the
actual time required to implement this proposed.
