Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail: Bids invited for tunnel construction under India’s first Bullet Train project

Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train: On Friday, bids were invited by the National High Speed Railway Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) for the construction of a 21-km long tunnel for India’s first Bullet Train project, the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor. A spokesperson of the NHSRCL was quoted saying in a PTI report that the tunnel will be constructed between the underground station at Bandra-Kurla Complex and Shilphata in the district of Thane, Maharashtra. The NHSRCL has invited the bids for the tunnelling work 21 kilometres underground, including a 7 kilometre long undersea tunnel to be constructed using Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) as well as New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM), the spokesperson said.