Rlys invites global bids for setting up high speed rail corridors

The Railway Ministry has recently invited global bids to appoint a consultant to conduct a pre-feasibility study to set up an HSRC between Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar.

The consultant’s task will essentially envisage preparing a detailed pre-feasibility report for setting up an elevated corridor equipped to handle trains moving at speeds in excess of 300 kmph on the 450-kilometre long Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar route.

The Railways has selected four more routes to get the pre-feasibility studies conducted and are likely to call for bids to appoint consultants to conduct studies for them. The routes include Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Dornakal-Vijaywada-Chennai, Howrah-Haldia and Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam.

Rail Bhavan is excited over the fact that almost all the major states — Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and West Bengal — have expressed their interest in high speed trains and have agreed “in principle” to participate in any pre-feasibility studies.