Bullet Train in India : Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet train to travel under the sea

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The narrow Siliguri Corridor, which at one point is less than 27 kilometres (17 mi) wide, remained as the only bridge between the northeastern part of India and the rest of the country.

A Chinese military advance of less than 130 kilometres (81 mi) would cut off Bhutan, part of West Bengal and all of North-East India, an area containing almost 50 million people. This situation arose during the war between India and China in 1962. May be this could also be a major reason for what NE to be what it is now.

It's nowhere related to China. If Chinese threat was not there then govt would not invest in north east so it's the China who is indirectly helping in developing north east .

I think as they hv less population so less vote bank for centre so Congress did not care them and bcoz of its geographically hill area so no industrialization so states are not financially powerful enough to undertake huge cost of development.

 

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Bullet Trains: The Cost Factor [Please click the link for the video]

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Bullet train will need 100 trips daily to be financially viable: IIM Ahmedabad study.
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The proposed bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad will have to ferry 88,000-118,000 passengers per day, or undertake 100 trips daily, for the Railways to keep it financially viable, says a report by Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

The report is titled, "Dedicated High Speed Railway (HSR) Networks in India: Issues in Development,".

Report states that if the Railways set the ticket price at Rs 1500 per person for 300-km drive, then fifteen years after the operation it will have to ferry between 88,000 and 110,000 passengers every day to ensure that it repays the loans with interest on time.

More: Bullet train will need 100 trips daily to be financially viable: IIM Ahmedabad study

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When Japanese bullet train flopped in Taiwan: Lessons for India?

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NEW DELHI: Bullet trains are not a hit everywhere. While a debate is raging over viability of India's bullet train project which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last week, it would be worthwhile to know how bullet train fared in Taiwan. It flopped, actually.

A consortium of private Taiwanese companies started the project in early nineties. In 2007, it ran the bullet train which was based on the Japanese Shinkansen technology, the same that India will use. The project cost $14.3 billion. Seven years later, in 2014, the government hinted that the rail operator could go bankrupt. Cumulative losses stood at 46.6 billion New Taiwan dollars or roughly $1.5 billion. Since it was an important piece of public infrastructure which had to be rescued, the Taiwanese government bailed it out next year by injecting nearly $1 billion of public money which reduced the operator's share by 60 per cent.

Read more at:When Japanese bullet train flopped in Taiwan: Lessons for India?

 

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Impossible, 2032 is a possibility bcoz here india you will find all kinds of people who will somehow managed to get stay order from Court.

Burning example is here
HC extends stay on felling trees on NH-112

There is not enough road in India so lots of accidents which causes more death then terrorist attack and when Modi Govt want to build road some people does not want it for them Tree is more important than human life

Another example why projects in India never completes in time and always runs overestimate cost bcoz of delay
Mumbai Metro III: HC stays tunneling work near heritage building

I am sure someone will definitely file a case against this train project in high court stating that tunnelling 7 Km under sea is destroying marine life so project should be stayed

 

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Debate: The Economic Reality of India's Bullet Train Is Not Far From Its Political Rhetoric - The Wire

 

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NEW DELHI/TOKYO: Japanese steel and engineering companies are in the driver's seat to bag major supply contracts for a $17 billion Indian bullet train, several sources said, undermining a key component of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic policy - a push to 'Make in India'.

Japan is funding most of the project, and Japanese companies are likely to supply at least 70 percent of the core components of the rail line, said five sources in New Delhi with direct knowledge of the matter.

A spokesman for Modi's office declined comment.

Blow to Make in India, Japanese companies grab all key contracts of Modi's bullet train

 

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• The bullet train journey time between Mumbai and Sabarmati will be 2.07 hours for a fast train and 2.58 hours for a train stopping at all twelve stations en route.
• Passenger capacity will initially be 750 per train and it will be increased to 1,250 later.

Ahmedabad to Mumbai in 2 hours, 70 bullet trips every day - Times of India

 

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A nine-coach bullet train will cost Rs. 60,000 cores whereas high-speed Rajdhani express trains cost around 75 crore. Which means, at the cost of a bullet train, India can afford to have around 800 Rajdhani express trains.
At the cost of one bullet train, India can afford to have 800 Rajdhani trains

 

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"Bullet trains will cater only to the elite community. It is highly expensive and beyond the reach of ordinary people. What India needs is a modern, clean, safe and fast rail system," Sreedharan said in an interview to Hindustan Times.

Bullet train: Metro man E Sreedharan slams Narendra Modi's pet bullet train project - The Economic Times

 

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Contest for name and mascot design for bullet train announced

 

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NHSRC bullet train training hub phase 1 completed in Vadodara final phase to be completed by september or October.
November would commence the rail project on the day of annual indo japan summit.
NHSRC has given instructions to railway ministry and respective state government to complete land acquisition within July 2019.