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Ahmedabad and for undertaking feasibility studies
on six other different alignments. The Union
Minister of Railways, Suresh Prabhu, while
delivering his 2015-16 railway budget in Parliament,
announced “we will continue to pursue with vigour
our special projects like High Speed Rail between
Mumbai-Ahmadabad. The feasibility study for this
is in advanced stage and report is expected by the
mid of this year. Quick and appropriate action will
be taken once the report is available with us.
Regarding the other high speed routes on the
diamond quadrilateral, studies are being
commissioned.” The feasibility study of the
Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor was submitted in
July 2015 and the process culminated with the
signing of the MoU between India and Japan on
12th December 2015.
We examined all the factors
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Japan is where regular, high-speed railways
were born. The country's Shinkansen (Bullet
Train) network has been developed over more
than