Four Cities in South India to be Connected by Bullet Train, Survey Ordered
Bullet Train in South India: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday announced that bullet train connectivity will be provided to South Indian cities and a survey for the same has been ordered.
Bullet train project in South India: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday said bullet train connectivity will be established in South India, hinting that it will cater to the needs of Hyderabad, Amaravati, Chennai and Bengaluru.
Bullet train route in South India
Naidu said the proposed bullet train network will connect four cities in South India. These are: Hyderabad, Chennai, Amaravati, and Bengaluru. “Very soon bullet train is going to come to South India. That is going to happen. Survey has been ordered.
From Hyderabad, Chennai, Amaravati, Bangalore, all four cities, more than five crore population and the biggest market in the world,” he said while addressing the ‘India Food Manufacturing Summit’ at Visakhapatnam, reports PTI.
PM Modi Bullet train news
Earlier during the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a bullet train from Tokyo to Sendai, accompanied by his Japanese counterpart, Shigeru Ishiba. He had arrived in Tokyo on Friday for a two-day visit.
In an interview with the Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun, PM Modi shared some exciting news about India’s high-speed rail plans. He said that while the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train is already underway, the government has even bigger ambitions, planning a 7,000-kilometer high-speed rail network across the country.
He also mentioned that the Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor is a flagship project with Japan and that passenger services are expected to start in just a few years. It sounds like India’s high-speed rail journey is really picking up pace.
Possible Bullet Train Routes in India
Earlier, the National Rail Plan mentioned the following routes for possible development of high speed rail network:
- Delhi – Varanasi
- Delhi – Ahmedabad
- Mumbai – Nagpur
- Mumbai – Hyderabad
- Chennai – Mysore
- Delhi – Amritsar
- Varanasi – Howrah
If these cities get connected by bullet train, it will reduce dependence on airlines for quicker travel and offer an almost equally faster mode of travel at much cheaper fares.
