Tender for Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project’s undersea tunnel opens on February 9
The tender for constructing a 21-km tunnel, including a 7-km undersea stretch, of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor (bullet train) will open Thursday (February 9). This will be the first undersea tunnel in India.
The tunnel will be built at Thane creek, between underground stations at Bandra-Kurla Complex and Shilphata in Maharashtra.
It is crucial to the bullet train project and is seen as the most challenging piece of civil engineering in the high-speed rail corridor. It may take around 60 months to construct.
The bullet train project is a 508-km corridor between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, crossing Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Executed with technical and financial assistance from Japan, the project costs around Rs 1.1 lakh, as per 2015 prices.
