An Indian Railways team is in China
to chalk out plans for conducting a study to build Delhi-Chennai high-speed
train corridor, the world’s second largest bullet train line. The
high-level team of officials from Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, led by Satish
Agnihotri, is in talks with offiicals of China’s high speed rail corporation
to build the Delhi-Chennai corridor.
China has agreed to conduct the
study free of cost during President Xi Jinping’s visit to India in
September, officials said. The proposed corridor could be the second largest in
the world after China’s
2,298-km Beijing-Guangzhou line which was launched last year. Trains on the
line, running at a speed of 300 km per hour, cover the distance in about eight
hours. The Delhi-Chennai high speed line could cost around $32.6 billion.
India is currently considering two
corridors for high speed trains. While Japan
is conducting a feasibility study for a bullet train project along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad
corridor, China
will do the same for the Delhi-Chennai route which is expected to begin by
early next year.
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