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Private Sector | Multi State - India | PID: 189983
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The drilling activity for India's first Bullet Train project is likely to begin by March 2020. The National High-Speed Rail Corporation, which is still acquiring land for the rail link between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, has floated tenders for tunnelling work between Bandra-Kurla Complex and Shilphata. The deadline for the tender is 23 August 2019.
The project will see an underground railway station at BKC, a double line from BKC via Thane and Palghar districts in Maharashtra. For the works, tunnel boring machines will go 30-45 mtr deep, drilling through basalt rocks and even under the Thane creek.
The tunnels will be 26 km long, and the single longest one will run 21 km underneath the Thane creek.
The tender will be opened after September 2019 and take a few months to select the contractor. The work on the project is expected to commence by the end of FY20.
The tunnelling will be carried out at BKC, Vikhroli, Savli and till Shilphata. It will be 17.5 mtr in diameter and nearly 13 mtr of the width will be occupied by two parallel tracks, running up and down through the city towards Gujarat.
Three tunnel boring machines (TBMs) and three New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM) machines will be used for the task.
An amount of Rs 10,000 crore has been set aside in the Union Budget 2019 for the high-speed rail estimated to cost Rs 1.08 lakh crore
| Updated on: 24 - Jul - 2019
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