After the Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor, govt. is already started the process for the building the Delhi-Varanasi corridor which will cover the distance in less than 3 hours.
Delhi-Varanasi Bullet Train To Cover The Journey In Less Than 3 Hours
After the Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor, the second bullet train is expected to run in India, from New Delhi to Varanasi. The train is expected to cover a 782 km journey in less than three hours, (approximately 2 hours 40 minutes), whereas the trains running currently on this route take nearly 10 hours to 14 hours to complete this journey.
The proposition of bullet train connecting India's capital and to what is referred as PM Modi's Lok Sabha Constituency has been fastracked by the Modi Government ahead of the UP polls next year.
The train will pass through 13 stations, constituting of Aligarh, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow and Sultanpur. This proposition seems to be another agenda of the Modi regime to portray a developmenting image of UP ahead of the polls.
The estimated budget on the Delhi-Varanasi corridor is supposed to be around Rs. 43000 crore. It is to be said that a spanish firm will be studying the feasibility of the proposed corridor. The final report is most likely to come by november 2016, though it is said that an interim report has already been submitted by the spanish firm.
The consultants are also exploring the possibility of operating doubledecker high speed trains on this section.
The preliminary cost on Delhi-Kolkata stretch is said to be around Rs. 84000 crore. The first ever bullet train proposition between Mumbai and Ahmedabad is said to begin by 2023.
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