Question : High Speed Corridor

(a) whether the Railways is working on a plan to connect major cities through a high speed corridor to reduce the travel time;

(b) if so, the details of the aforesaid plan and the names of the cities proposed for linking through the said high speed corridor, State-wise;

(c) whether there is any plan to connect Nagpur-Mumbai and Lucknow-Delhi through a high speed corridor to reduce the travel time and if so, the details thereof;

(d) whether the Railways has signed MoU for developing proposed high speed corridors and if so, the details thereof; and

(e) whether the Railways has identified more cities for high speed corridors and if so, the details thereof, State-wise?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(SHRI RAJEN GOHAIN)


(a) to (e) : Government has identified the routes connecting four major metros and growth centres of the country for feasibility studies for high speed rail. Feasibility studies have been taken up for the following routes :-
(i) Delhi-Mumbai,
(ii) Delhi-Kolkata (via Lucknow),
(iii) Mumbai-Chennai,
(iv) Delhi-Nagpur segment of Delhi-Chennai,
(v) Mumbai-Nagpur segment of Mumbai Kolkata and
(vi) Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysuru.

Of the above-mentioned feasibility studies, those for Mumbai-Nagpur, Delhi-Nagpur and Chennai-Bangaluru-Mysuru have been taken up under Government to Government cooperation with the Governments of Spain, China and Germany respectively. Presently, only Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project (MAHSR) has been sanctioned with the financial and technical assistance from Government of Japan.

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