Indian Railways want to expand bullet train to four metro cities
New Delhi: Indian Railways is all set to make travelling faster, sleeker and a lot better. They now plan to set up high-speed rail network across four metro cities – Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata. The government too has earmarked routes to initiate feasibility studies for the Bullet Train project. The objective is to connect all the four major metro cities in the country. Government has already started working on ground level. They have identified routes and will feasibility studies have been initiated. Minister of State of Railways, Rajen Gohain in a written reply to a question asked in Lok Sabha had listed main routes connecting four metro cities. He also shared that feasibility studies have been taken up for the same. The routes identified for the Bullet Train project that will link four major metro cities are as follows: (i) Delhi-Mumbai, (ii) Delhi-Kolkata (via Lucknow) (iii) Mumbai-Chennai (iv) Delhi-Nagpur segment of Delhi-Chennai, (v) Mumbai-Nagpur segment of Mumbai...