Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the North Corridor of the bullet train project, connecting Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ayodhya, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Patna and Siliguri, with the route extending to Guwahati.
Vaishnaw emphasised that the project would be built under the Make in India initiative. “The construction is progressing rapidly. It will be fully ‘Make in India’, built by the youth and welders of India.
Vaishnaw also said Uttar Pradesh’s railway budget allocation had increased twentyfold, from ₹ 1,100 crore under previous governments to ₹ 20,000 crore.
Speaking before flagging off the new Vande Bharat Sleeper Express services between Varanasi and New Delhi, Vaishnaw said, “The prime minister has approved the North Corridor of the bullet train, which will change the lives of many… Chief minister Yogi Adityanath said an action plan had been prepared to operate a bullet train between Delhi and Varanasi which will reduce travel time to three-and-a-half hours.
