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RITES invites firms to take part in pre-construction activities of Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail project

Activities would include geo-technical and geo-physical investigations into the 21 km tunnel of the project as well as the Final Location Survey to mark the alignment.

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The construction work for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail project, commonly called the bullet train project, finally commenced, with engineering consultancy RITES inviting firms to take part in pre-construction activities on the line. The activities include geo-technical and geo-physical investigations into the 21 km tunnel of the project as well as the Final Location Survey to mark the alignment, right down to the pillars on which the high speed trains will run.

The costliest of these pre-construction work is the Rs 14 crores that will be spent for the rock and soil investigations before beginning work on the twin tunnels, each being about 10.5 kms in length. The Lidar survey, a technique that uses radar and lasers to map a rail route, will be another major part of the work and it is expected to cost Rs 5.25 crores.

The Land Acquisition survey will also be carried at the same time, said officials. "All these works will take anything between 60 to 225 days. The firms for the surveys will be chosen by the end of October and actual work of surveying land and the alignment should begin by end 2016 or early 2017," said officials.

The National High Speed Rail Corporation, the special projects vehicle that is overseeing the construction of the rail line, is expected to get a managing director and three other directors so that work begins in right earnest. "It is one of the pet projects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi but movement on it was not as quick as one would expect for a project of this nature. Hopefully now the gears have changed and things will start falling in place. After all it is a project whose financial requirements are already taken care of due to the railways memorandum of understanding with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency way back in December 2015," said an official.

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