Bullet train: Indian Railways gets land papers

A vital step towards starting the big-ticket project of Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail corridor, popularly called the Bullet train project, begun on Tuesday. The Maharashtra government handed over land papers for the Bullet train to the Indian Railways.

These papers are of the land space required at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) where an underground station for this Bullet train will come up. For several months, there was gridlock over acquisition of 0.9 hectares of land for the project. The planning and development agency of MMRDA have proposed an International Finance Service Centre on the same plot.

This station will be underground at about 25-metre depth, built-in 3 levels and will be integrated with IFSC building proposed above it. The railways argued that the station at BKC is ideal as it will connect the business district and it will be in between two important suburban railway stations of Kurla and Bandra.

This will also be connected with the proposed metro station, and the airport from this terminal will be just about 5 km. It is expected that this high speed rail project will bring development to satellite towns of Boisar and Virar, as the high speed train will offer commuting option to the public of this area to go to Mumbai. 

THE BKC PLOT

These papers are of the land space required at BKC where an underground station for the Bullet train will come up. For several months, there was gridlock over acquisition of 0.9 hectares for the project. The planning and development agency of MMRDA have proposed an International Finance Service Centre on the same plot.