NHSRCL awards contract for last civil package of Bullet train’s 135 km bit

National High Speed ​​Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) on Thursday said it had awarded the contract for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad express train project the “last civil package” of a 135-kilometre section.

The express train corridor is divided into 28 contract packages, 11 of which are “civilian package”.

In a statement, the corporation said the works on the 135-kilometre section between Shilvata in Thane district and Zaroli village on the Maharashtra-Gujarat border included seven tunnels and the two-kilometre longest bridge over Vitarna River in Maharashtra state, along with construction of Thane, Viarar and Poissar stations. NHSRCL has already awarded contracts for the construction of the Mumbai Terminal (BKC) and 21 kilometers of tunnels including 7 km subsea tunnel works in Maharashtra. All civil contracts for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed ​​Rail corridor have been awarded with this latest bid, the statement said.

“This also represents the granting of all 11 civil packages with a length of 508 km from the Mahsr Corridor, which includes 465 km of long bridges, 12 HSR stations, 3 warehouses for rotating vehicles, 28 steel bridges of 10 kilometers of bridges, 24 river bridges, and 9 tunnels including a 7 -km length of the sea tunnel, the first tunnel below the sea in India.” The first civil contract for the construction of a 237-kilometre bridge including 4 HSR terminals (Vapi, Bilimora, Surat and Bharuch) and a Surat rolling stock depot in Gujarat was awarded on October 28, 2020, which was also the largest civil contract awarded in India, the company claimed. The total cost of the project is 1.08 trillion rupees.