HIGH SPEED RAIL IN INDIA. November update

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HIGH SPEED RAIL IN INDIA. November update Because we want to be the leader source of information for high speed rail in India, we are to provide our readers with a monthly update with all the information available about high speed rail in India.Updated July 30th 2011If you are a frequent visitor you already know that feasibility studies for six corridors will be developed. These are the following:
  b) Delhi- Chandigarh - Amritsar.
  e) Hyderabad - Dornakal - Vijayawada - Chennai. Tender closed June 15th
  f) Chennai -Bangalore - Coimbatore - Ernakulam
These studies are being funded by the central government and state governments sharing 50 % of the cost each of them. For any other study the state government will have to bear 80% of the cost, while the balance will be taken up by the railways.Updates:1. Pune- Mumbai- Ahmedabad corridor.- "Systra was appointed in April last year. It has submitted an inception report, two interim reports and one draft final report,"- Deliberations are going on in the railway ministry whether the corridor should be elevated, or access controlled.
Karnataka Government shortlisted five private consortia, which include the following:- Reliance Infrastructure - CSR Nanjing Rolling Stock Company Ltd (China)- Pioneer Infratech Pvt Ltd-Siemens Project Ventures (Germany),- Lanco Infratech Pvt Ltd- OHL Concessions S.L.(Spain),- Laursen&Toubro, Transco Ltd and- ITD-ITD Cem-Soma Enterprises Joint Ventures.
In 2006, the Karnataka government proposed to implement the project under the Mysore Tramway Act 1905, but with the new airport located outside the jurisdiction of the city corporation or the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike, where the Act is not applicable, the government has been forced to stall the project indefinitely while it pursues a legal resolution.
On Oct 24 an eight-member government delegation from India arrived in China, sponsored by the World Bank's South to South Experience Exchange Trust Fund, to meet with counterparts at the China Ministry of Railways with the aim of learning from each other.
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