5 Rapid Facts On India’s Ambitious High-Speed Rail Project

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5 Rapid Facts On Indias Ambitious High-Speed
Rail Project
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When India and Japan collaborate-
mega-infrastructure is bound to happen

• Typical of Modis unabashed love for one of
  Indias most enterprising states, the first train
  line will link Ahmedabad city in Modis home
  state to Mumbai, the financial capital of India.

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Why Japan and no one else?

• Where it comes to high-speed rail, Japanese
  trains are the fastest in the world and the
  planned trains projected speed is expected to
  notch up to 350 kilometers per hour. Thats 217
  miles precisely. Not too bad, is it?

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Emergence of the Indo-Japan co-operation on
high-speed rail

• The agreement to build a 508-kilometer rail
  network was signed recently, in 2016. Once the
  high-speed rail begins its sojourn, passengers
  would be able to travel between Ahmedabad to
  Mumbai in a space of 2-3 hours instead of 8,
  being the normal travel duration.

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It isnt only high-speed that serves as backbone
to Indias lofty new project

• If figures of 2012 are any true, then around
  15,000 people are killed every year in rail
  accidents caused in India? While theres no
  denying the hapless state of affairs that run
  amok, heres what is slated to change. The
  Modi-government recently shared that a whopping
  137 billion are to be invested to renovate
  Indias crumbling network.

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Japanese technology will rescue Indias ageing,
heckled rail-service

• Additionally, Tokyos funding toward energising
  Indias dream accounts to somewhere around 80 of
  the total project cost, thats around 17 billion
  dollars which comes at a tiny interest rate of
  0.1 over 50 years.

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