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In an age that functions on timelines that often translates to being cramped for time, it pays to have high-speed rail service. Spain, Belgium, Germany, France, South Korea and China have been running high-speed rail for a while now. In fact, mightily well if it could be added. Even as China has the widest, or the densest network of high-speed rail, whatever you might want to call it, it is Japan that has stood far ahead in the game.
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When India and Japan collaborate- mega-infrastructure is bound to happen Typical of Modi’s unabashed love for one of India’s most enterprising states, the first train line will link Ahmedabad city in Modi’s home state to Mumbai, the financial capital of India.
Why Japan and no one else? Where it comes to high-speed rail, Japanese trains are the fastest in the world and the planned train’s projected speed is expected to notch up to 350 kilometers per hour. That’s 217 miles precisely. Not too bad, is it?
Emergence of the Indo-Japan co-operation on high-speed rail The agreement to build a 508-kilometer rail network was signed recently, in 2016. Once the high-speed rail begins it’s sojourn, passengers would be able to travel between Ahmedabad to Mumbai in a space of 2-3 hours instead of 8, being the normal travel duration.
It isn’t only high-speed that serves as backbone to India’s lofty new project If figures of 2012 are any true, then around 15,000 people are killed every year in rail accidents caused in India? While there’s no denying the hapless state of affairs that run amok, here’s what is slated to change. The Modi-government recently shared that a whopping $137 billion are to be invested to renovate India’s crumbling network.
Japanese technology will ‘rescue’ India’s ageing, heckled rail-service Additionally, Tokyo’s funding toward energising India’s dream accounts to somewhere around 80% of the total project cost, that’s around $17 billion dollars which comes at a tiny interest rate of 0.1% over 50 years.
