No foreign company is interested to build 200-250 kmph lines and upgrading existing tracks -Alok Kumar Verma
“Foreign companies surely, hoping for lucrative contracts in future, but, no one ready to do feasibility study for raising speed on the existing trunk routes or build new 200-250 kmph lines” -Verma
The Indian Railways has identified six sections including the 435km Mysuru- Bengaluru-Chennai for high-speed and semi-high-speed corridors, CRB VKYadav said adding that a Detailed Project Report (DPR) on these sections will be ready within a year.
The new corridors will join the under- construction Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed route. Trains can run at a maximum speed of over 320 kmph on a high-speed corridor, while on a semi-high speed corridor, the maximum speed can go beyond 160 kmph.
Disappointing that in the debate on Rly Bodget 2020 in the national media, no one has askef why no project sanctioned yet for upgrading the existing trunk routes of IR. It seems some politicians from Karnataka demanded a Bullet Train line for their state. https://t.co/0ASPyrfEBW
— Alok Kumar Verma (@trains_are_best) February 12, 2020
In a briefing of the Union Budget-2020, CRB said the six corridors include the Delhi-Noida-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi (865 km) and the Delhi-Jaipur- Udaipur-Ahmedabad (886 km) sections. Other corridors are: Mumbai-Nashik-Nagpur (753 km), Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad (711 km), Chennai-Bengaluru-Mysuru (435 km) and the Delhi-Chandigarh-Ludhiana- Jalandhar-Amritsar (459 km) sections.
“We have identified these six corridors and their DPR will be prepared within a year. The DPR will study the feasibility of these routes which includes land availability, alignment and a study of the traffic potential there. After these things are studied, we will decide if they will be high-speed or semi-high-speed corridors,” said Yadav.
On the CRB’s above bluffing or say big mouthing, the former Chief Engineer of Northern Railway Alok Kumar Verma commented on Twitter. He said, “the manufacturers of Bullet Train systems (ICE of Germany, TGV of France, Shinkansen of Japan etc) are carrying out feasibility studies and paying for them. Surely, hoping for lucrative contracts in future. But, no one ready to do feasibility study for raising speed on the existing trunk routes or new 200-250 kmph lines”.
“Recently SYSTRA, consultancy company from France, engaged me as its chief consultant to carry out feasibility study for Thiruvananthapuram – Kasargod 200-250 kmph line. It did not bring experts from France!!” he said.
Verma says, “My assessment is no foreign company is interested in imparting knowledge and share experience of building 200-250 kmph lines and upgrading existing lines. Their interest lies in Bullet Train lines as they can garner multi-billion dollar contracts for these super-costly systems”.
“In fact the Bullet Train technology is well set to becoming obsolete in about 10 years with Japan already building a 500 km (Tokyo to Osaka), 500 kmph Megleve line to replace the Bullet Train line”, said Verma.
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The manufacturers of Bullet Train systems (ICE of Germany, TGV of France, Shinkansen of Japan etc) are carrying out feasibility studies and paying for them. Surely, hoping for lucrative contracts in future. But, no one ready to do feasibility study for…https://t.co/H11C2sjRQ2
— Alok Kumar Verma (@trains_are_best) February 12, 2020