Centre invites bids for construction of bullet train terminus at Bandra Kurla complex

Less than a month after it formed the Government in Maharashtra in alliance with the Shiv Sena faction led by current chief minister Eknath Shinde, the BJP-led Government at the Centre on Friday put the stalled Bullet Train Project on a high-speed mode, as it called for tenders for the construction of an underground railway station at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) in north central Mumbai.

The Shiv Sena-led MVA Government, which came into existence on November 28, 2019, had put Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet Bullet Train immediately after it assumed office.

However, the Narendra Modi government has revived the Bullet Train project in little over three weeks after Eknath Shinde of the rebel Shiv Sena faction