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The bullet train project is being developed with technical and financial support from the Japanese government.
The bullet train that can accelerate up to 250 – 280 kilometres per hour will be built on an estimated budget of Rs 200 – 250 crore.
While the price hike may impact one's budget, purchasing the 14-day pass proves advantageous, allowing travellers to explore the entire country via bullet trains.
Under the revised debt funding plan submitted and approved by the Centre, Kerala has nearly halved the JICA loan to USD 2.5 billion from USD 4.6 billion earlier.
Indicating a delay in the country's first bullet train project, the Railways on Saturday said a 'real timeframe' for the completion of the Mumbai -Ahmedabad bullet train plan has to be 'reassessed'
Driven by a self-propulsion module sans a separate locomotive, the train, capable of running at a speed of up to 160 kmph, comes with technical features for enhanced quick acceleration.
The Rs 100 crore indigenously designed train has become the country's fastest train.
Goyal said going ahead with the inauguration of the Vande Bharat Express was a befitting reply to the terrorists who perpetrated the Pulwama attacks.
Under the new design not 53,000 but an estimated 32,044 mangroves may be affected.
The train will run between New Delhi and Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event here,
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