India's first bullet train

Hey guys! the Haryana government has given its nod for setting up an elevated high speed 500-km rail corridor between Delhi and Chandigarh. the proposed India's first bullet train will bring the travel time down to one-and-a-half hour, as the train will run at a speed of 250 kmph. right now, it takes more than 4 hours by train to travel the same distance. the Railway board chairman J P Batra said that the project would cost Rs. 25,000 crore, which means that the cost per km of the corridor would be Rs 50 crore. in comparison, the Delhi Metro costs for an elevated stretch are at least Rs.110 crore per km and for an underground stretch are Rs. 285 crore per km.the High Speed Rail Infrastructure Development Corporation of the Railways would be the project development nodal agency, responsible for the establishment of this network. the talks of India's first bullet trian had surfaced almost 2 years back in the rail budget, when a high speed dedicated stretch was planned from Delhi-Mumbai via Jaipur, which had trains proposed to be running at speeds of upto 300-350 kmph. also heard was another high speed bullet train corridor from Delhi-Lucknow-Patna-Kolkata. though none of it later concretised against the willingness of Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, this recent Haryana Government- Indian Railways joint venture will definitely be a boon to the economy and i hope that the actual implementation takes place on time and at par with the standards expected of a bullet train corridor. the report in Times Of India didn't have any other details, as to by what time would the project be ready.