NEW DELHI: The railway ministry is carrying out detailed study for six high speed rail (HSR) corridors or for running bullet trains with total length of 4,109 km, Union minister Piyush Goyal informed Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

In a written reply, the minister said the nine corridors are Delhi–Varanasi via Noida, Agra and Kanpur, Delhi-Ahmedabad via Jaipur and Udaipur, Mumbai-Nagpur via Nasik, Mumbai-Hyderabad via Pune, Chennai-Mysore via Bangalore and Delhi-Amritsar via Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar.

TOI on February 23 in 2019 had first reported about 10 proposed bullet train corridors including these six. The railways estimated around Rs 10 lakh crore investment in these projects.

He said the task to prepare detailed project reports has been given to the National High Speed Rail

Corporation (NHSRCL), which is implementing the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project.

The minister said, “The railways is undertaking measures for improving speed of both passenger and freight trains. Improvement in average speed of trains is a continuous exercise for railways...At present, Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (HSR) corridor is the only HSR project which is sanctioned and the same is under execution with the technical and financial cooperation from Government of Japan.”

