The Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed bullet train will leave every 20 minutes from Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) during peak hours, a senior official of the National High Speed Railway Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) recently said.

The operations for this dream project will commence as soon as 2022, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has said. The train will have 10 coaches, a seating capacity of 750 passengers and will leave Mumbai for Ahmedabad every 20 minutes.

The bullet train is expected to cover the 530-km stretch at a maximum speed of 320 km per hour to reach Ahmedabad in just about two hours.

India's first ever bullet train dream was kicked off after Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inaugurated the project in Ahmedabad, Gujarat last year in September.

The Indian public transport will be redefined with the help of the luxurious seating arrangement and other such unique features that this train will offer. The bullet train will reduce the travel time between Mumbai-Ahmedabad as the high-speed train will cover the distance of 508-km in 2 hours and 7 minutes.

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The Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train has been in service for a long time, and the Indian Railways will be receiving 25 of these bullet trains from Japan at an estimated cost of Rs 5,000 crore. The one lakh crore bullet train project by the Narendra Modi government has some high aims and plans to change the way people in India look at travelling in trains.

Here are some facts about the bullet train project:

The project will cost Rs 1.10 lakh crore for the first rail link

Japan will fund 81 per cent of the entire project, payable over 50 years, at an interest rate of 0.1 per cent

The train can carry 750 passengers between Gujarat and Mumbai. In a day, it will make 70 Ahmedabad-Mumbai sorties

The bullet train will connect Mumbai and Ahmedabad with a total of 12 stations

It is expected to run on an average speed of 250 km per hour, with a top speed of around 320 km per hour

The travel time will be reduced from eight hours to a little over three hours if it stops at all the stations and around two hours if it stops at only four

Of the 508 km stretch, 92 per cent of the route will be elevated, six per cent through a tunnel, and the remaining on the ground

The high-speed train will pass through the country's longest tunnel of 21 km, of which 7 km will be under the sea

The first bullet train is expected to run in less than five years. New Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said the train will start operating on August 15, 2022 -- when India completes 75 years of independence

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