High speed train track too costly |
Construction of one kilometer of high speed railway track will cost Rs 100-140 crores or between US$ 15 and 22 million. India will need a total of Rs 80,000 crores or US$ 13 billion to lay the entire high speed train corridor. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu informed Indian Parliament that the cost of laying one km of high speed track was 10 to 14 times higher than the construction of a normal railway track. Prabhu said Indian Railways currently does not have any high speed corridor and such corridors identified for pre-feasibility studies included Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Delhi- Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna, Howrah-Haldia, Chennai-Bengaluru-Coimbatore-Ernakulum-Thiruvananthapuram.
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