'Report on Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train to be ready by next yr'.

An interim report on the proposed Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train will be ready next month, while the feasibility report on its technical and commercial viability will be completed by July 2015, said Union Railway Minister D V Sadananda Gowda recently.

Gowda told reporters the ambitious project would cost Rs. 65,000 crore. He said the bullet train would run on separate tracks at 300 km per hour speed. He said the project was definitely on track would be floated in mid-November for pit-lines. He also said that running trials were going on on the Delhi-Agra route for high-speed trains of 161 kmph speeds and the Commissioner of Railway Safety would be sent proposals for speed augmentation of Rajdhani,, Diamond Quadrangle and Shatabdi trains.

THE INDIAN EXPRESS