Major industry players, including Larsen & Toubro, Tata Projects, JMC Projects, and NCC Ltd, have shown interest in one of the largest tenders for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) project, covering the 47 % of your lineup and four major stations. .
On Wednesday, technical bids were opened for the design and construction of 237 kilometers of the main line of the Mumba-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor. The three bids that were submitted included one from Larsen & Toubro and others from two consortiums of independent companies. The first consortium includes Afcons Infrastructure, IRCON International and JMC Projects, while the second includes NCC, Tata Project Ltd and J Kumar Infra Projects.
This tender covers approximately 47 percent of the total alignment, between Vapi and Vadodara in the state of Gujarat. This includes four stations, including Vapi, Billimora, Surat, and Bharuch, in addition to the river and 30 road crossings. This entire section is in Gujarat, where more than 83 percent of the land was acquired for the project.
According to the National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL), which is responsible for implementing the Mumbai – Ahmedabad high speed project, the project alone will create more than 90,000 direct and indirect jobs during the construction phase. Not only the labor market, but also the production and manufacturing market will benefit from the project. It is estimated that about 7.5 million MT of cement, 2.1 million MT of steel and 140,000 MT of structural steel will be used in construction and all of which will be produced in India. In addition to this, large construction machinery is another market that will see a significant profit from the project.
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This comes at a time when the NHSRCL is working on 7 new projects, including Delhi-Varanasi, Mumbai-Nagpur, Delhi-Ahmedabad, Chennai-Mysore, Delhi-Amritsar, Mumbai-Hyderabad and Varanasi-Howrah, at an expected cost. of around 10 trillion rupees.
The first high-speed rail corridor between Mumbai and Ahmedabad is being built with Japanese help. With 12 stations in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the corridor will be 508.17 km long. The railway will cover 155.76 km in Maharashtra state (7.04 km in suburban Mumbai, 39.66 km in Thane district and 109.06 km in Palghar district), 4.3 km in the territory of the Union of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and 348.04 km in the state. from Gujarat.
The 12 stations will include: Mumbai, Thane, Virar, Boisar (in Maharashtra), Vapi, Bilimora, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand, Ahmedabad, and Sabarmati (in Gujarat). While a limited-stop service (in Surat and Vadodara) will cover this distance in 1 hour and 58 minutes, the service with all stops will take 2 hours 57 minutes to cover this distance. The high-speed train will operate at a speed of 320 kilometers per hour on an elevated track in a viaduct along, except 26 km in Mumbai, which will be underground. All stations will be elevated except Bandra Kurla Complex (Mumbai) station, which will be underground.
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