A bit of Ahmedabad-Mumbai high-speed rail corridor is liable to be tendered out in three months (File)
New Delhi:
The Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet follow enterprise, which is scheduled to be completed by December 2023, may fail to fulfill its deadline due to the coronavirus pandemic that has led to delays in opening tenders and land acquisition, officers acknowledged.
The Nationwide Extreme Velocity Rail Firm (NHSRCL) has already acquired 63 per cent of the land for the enterprise — about 77% land in Gujarat, 80% in Dadar Nagar Haveli and 22% in Maharashtra. Officers acknowledged there are nonetheless factors in shopping for land in areas like Palghar in Maharashtra and Navsari in Gujarat.
Ultimate yr, the company had floated 9 civil work tenders which could not be opened as a result of coronavirus pandemic, officers acknowledged.
“As a consequence of COVID we wanted to postpone the opening of a number of the tenders. It is robust to judge the impression of the pandemic on the enterprise because it’s nonetheless persevering with. We can’t say how the pandemic will impact the enterprise as I have no idea the way in which prolonged it’s going to ultimate,” NHSRCL MD Achal Khare acknowledged.
Formally, the NHSRCL spokesperson maintained that the deadline for the enterprise remained 2023.
Certainly one of many civil work contracts for growth of stations, bridges, viaducts, repairs depots, and tunnels all through the group is to the tune of Rs 20,000 crore.
Tenders for civil works for 345 kms out of 508 kms alignment, or 68 % of civil works, have already been floated. This accommodates six MAHSR stations (along with one underground station in Mumbai). The works related to utility diversion are progressing properly and the event of Sabarmati passenger hub (a multi modal hub) in Sabarmati, Gujarat has moreover started.
The hostel establishing of Extreme Velocity Teaching Institute (which is presently getting used for COVID victims) and training tracks in Vadodara are moreover completed.
The 508.17-kilometre prolonged group will transfer by three districts in Maharashtra (Mumbai, Thane, and Palghar) and eight districts in Gujarat (Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand, Kheda, and Ahmedabad).
Aside from land acquisition, one different primary set off for delay might very nicely be value escalation owing to a fall throughout the rupee in direction of the Japanese yen.
The general value of the enterprise is pegged at Rs 1.08 lakh crore and as per the shareholding pattern, the Authorities of India is to pay Rs 10,000 crore to the NHSRCL, whereas the two states involved, Gujarat and Maharashtra, are to pay Rs 5,000 crore each. The rest is to be paid by Japan by a mortgage at 0.1 per cent curiosity.
One a part of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai high-speed rail corridor is liable to be tendered out inside three months after virtually 90 per cent of the land acquisition for the enterprise is completed, an official acknowledged.
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