An agreement has been signed by NHSRCL with Larsen & Turbo for the country’s largest infrastructure contract for style as properly as the building of 47 per cent alignment for India’s initial higher-speed rail corridor project.
Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project: On Thursday, an agreement has been signed by the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) with Larsen & Turbo for the country’s largest infrastructure contract for style as properly as the building of 47 per cent alignment for India’s initial higher-speed rail corridor project connecting Mumbai and Ahmedabad. The agreement signed with L&T also contains the improvement of 4 stations namely Billimora, Vapi, Surat and Bharuch, Surat Depot, a total of 42 road crossings, as quite a few as 14 river crossings, as properly as six railway crossings such as a 350 metres lengthy mountain tunnel, according to a PTI report.
NHSRCL mentioned the contract has been signed for the style and building of 237 kilometres lengthy viaduct in between Vapi (Zaroli Village at the border of Maharashtra-Gujarat) and Vadodara in Gujarat for 508 kilometres of Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train corridor. The occasion was attended by the Ambassador of Japan to India, Satoshi Suzuki along with major officials of and NHSRCL and the Railway Board. On 23 September 2020, technical bids for this tender had been opened and the monetary bids had been opened in significantly less than a single month just after evaluation of the technical bids. The anticipated deadline for the functions to comprehensive is 4 years from the commencement date of the contract.
According to NHSRCL, in the course of the building phase of this higher-speed corridor section, the nearby regions of the alignment will witness social as properly as financial improvement. Also, there will be employment generation for skilled and semi-skilled workforce such as specialists such as technicians, engineers, architects, designers, and so on., as properly as building workers. Besides, the demand for building material and machinery such as steel, cement, heavy building machinery, trailers, cranes, and so on., will get a increase. During the building period, the ancillary industries like entertainment, tourism, hospitality, overall health, actual estate, education and housing will also flourish, NHSRCL added.