118-km pier work for Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project completed: Railways

118-km pier work for Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project completed: Railways

• Nikhil Kamad | TBT | Updated: Dec 21, 2022, 17:48 IST
  

AHMEDABAD: The National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has announced that the pier work for the stretch of 118 km — for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project

 — has been completed while the girders for the 15.7 km have been completed.

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The NHSRCL has announced that number of piles that have come up is 28,293.

November has the highest casting at 14.36 km, the NHSRCL said.

According to officials, the land acquisition was over 98% in Gujarat and Maharashtra.

In Gujarat 98.87% of the land acquisition was completed while for the same in Maharashtra, it was 98.22%.

In Dadar and Nagar Haveli, the land acquisition was completed, and no more land was to be acquired.

The NHSCRL officials said that overall progress was 24.10% in the over-500-km stretch from Ahmedabad to Mumbai.

The progress in Gujarat was 29.78% while the same in Maharashtra it was 13.26%.

Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had in 2022 announced in Ahmedabad that the multimodal hub, which is coming up in Sabarmati as a part of the 

Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, will be ready by January or February next year. The NHSRCL has got possession of the Bandra-Kurla station.The project involves the first undersea tunnel which will be between the underground station at Bandra-Kurla Complex and Shilphata in Maharashtra.

The seven-km (approx.) stretch of the under-sea tunnel at Thane Creek (Intertidal Zone) will be the first under-sea tunnel to come up in the country.

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The tunnel will be a single tube one to accommodate twin tracks for both-up and down track.