Vadodara: The much-touted India’s first bullet train project for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed project training center in Vadodara has been, as per the reports, 15-20 percent completed by now. According to the people involved in the project, the work is in full swing and they are doing everything to ensure that India does not compromise on “quality and parameters” in the project. The Lal Bagh center is actually a part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail project.
Tarun Kathhpadia, who is an Executive Team Leader of Japan International Consultants for Transportation Co Ltd, said during a visit to the location to the location site of the training institute “The Japanese government is funding us and will give their technology to us. Later, the Japanese trainers will come here and will train us how to run the bullet trains besides highlighting other technical aspects.”
According to the expert opinion of Mr. kathhpadia, the bullet train can attain speeds of up to 350 per hour and that they are ensuring that bullet train runs with the same quality and parameters that the trains have in Japan.
“Japan International Consultants is the supervising consultant. They are here to ensure that the work is done at the best quality, on time and under proper security measures. This institute project has been divided into three parts – TI 1, TI 2 and TI 3. We will give training to around 4,000 people here,” he added.
Kikuo Watanbe, who is looking after the training institute project on behalf of Japan said, “We have faced a lot of problem due to the monsoon and other situation recently. But thankfully now we have a good weather here and the progress is going on in full swing.”
Chief Project Manager, Vadodara, said that the theme of the terminal hub for the project in Vadodara will be designed as ‘banyan tree’.
“The bullet train’s track will be higher by 23 metre (70 feet) compared to the existing conventional railway tracks,” Mr. Ahirkar said.
The total length covered by the bullet train between the proposed Ahmedabad and Mumbai will run for a total of 508 km and out of this total 21 km will be covered in the tunnel under the sea.
The estimated cost of the tunnel alone is said to be Rs. 3,500 crores.
And regarding the whole project, the approximated cost is tagged at around Rs. 1.10 trillion and for that Japan is availing a loan of Rs. 88,000 crores for the project at an interest rate of 0.1 which can be repaid over the period of 50 years.
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