{"id":2995,"date":"2009-12-24T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T18:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2009-12-24T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T21:01:31","slug":"my-thoughts-on-proposed-high-speed-rail-corridors-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/2995","title":{"rendered":"My thoughts on proposed high speed rail corridors in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways has come up with a Vision 2020 document. It is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianrailways.gov.in\/DEPTTS\/Infrastructure\/VISION%202020_Eng_SUBMITTED%20TO%20PARLIAMENT.pdf\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/www.indianrailways.gov.in\/DEPTTS\/Infrastructure\/VISION%202020_Eng_SUBMITTED%20TO%20PARLIAMENT.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In that it says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Vision 2020 also envisages the implementation of at least 4 high-speed rail projects to provide bullet train services at 250-350 kmph, one in each of the regions of the nation and planning for at least 8 more corridors <u>connecting commercial, tourist and pilgrimage hubs<\/u>. Six corridors have already been identified for technical studies on setting up of High Speed Rail Corridors. These are:<br \/>\ni. Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar;<br \/>\nii. Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad;<br \/>\niii. Hyderabad-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai;<br \/>\niv. Howrah-Haldia;<br \/>\nv. Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam;<br \/>\nvi. Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the following map the above six corridors are shown in RED. In BLUE are the corridors that I think Orissa government should push for on the ground of connecting to the commercial, tourist and pilgrimage hub of Bhubaneswar-Puri. These two corridors are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kolkata-Bhubaneswar-Puri and<\/li>\n<li>Bhubaneswar-Visakhapatnam-Vijaywada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition the following corridors (shown in GREEN) should also be made to connect the smaller corridors to make larger corridors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hyderabad-Pune<\/li>\n<li>Ahmedabad-Jaipur-Delhi<\/li>\n<li>Patna-Kolkata<\/li>\n<li>Patna-Guwahati<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/india-map-high-speed-rail.jpg\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/india-map-high-speed-rail.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways has come up with a Vision 2020 document. It is at http:\/\/www.indianrailways.gov.in\/DEPTTS\/Infrastructure\/VISION%202020_Eng_SUBMITTED%20TO%20PARLIAMENT.pdf. In that it says: The Vision 2020 also envisages the implementation of at least 4 high-speed rail projects to provide bullet train services at 250-350 kmph, one in each of the regions of the nation and planning for at least 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-speed-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}