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India is now looking to transform its
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rail network from somewhat inadequate to
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state-of-the-art as soon as possible and
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to your surprise it's already made a big
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start yes the work is well underway on
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its first high-speed rail system one
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that it hopes will event connect all of
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India's major cities for now there's
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just a single line under construction
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along the country's Western Edge but
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this route alone throws up some immense
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challenges linking Mumbai and Ahmedabad
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both massive economic and Industrial
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hubs the new Railway is just over 534 km
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long and 12 stations are being built it
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is supposed to cost a whooping amount of
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20 billion us but hold on before we dive
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into the specific of this gigantic
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project why not spare a minute to like
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this video as it take enormous effort to
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create one for you as per the latest
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updates the body in charge of India's
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first high-speed Railway said it had
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bought all the 1,400 hectares of land it
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needed for the project and had awarded
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all civil engineering contracts in the
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states of Gujarat and Maharashtra
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leaving only the small Enclave of dadra
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and nagar havali overseen by the
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national highspeed rail Corporation the
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8 km line will run between Mumbai and
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Ahmedabad the Indian is all ready to use
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Japanese shinkansen bullet train
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technology and is being financed largely
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by Japanese money the corporation said
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it had also laid 120 km of girders 271
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km of peer casting and had cast the
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first reinforced concrete track bed
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required by the Japanese shinkansen
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system it said this last had been
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completed in the city of Surat which is
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roughly halfway between mum and
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Ahmedabad the corporation added that the
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route's first Mountain tunnel which runs
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for 350 M near the village of zeri in
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Gujarat had been completed in 10 months
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and the first Steel Bridge spanning 70m
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was completed in Surat altogether 16
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Bridge projects are underway with
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another 12 yet to begin another project
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highlight was the beginning of work on
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India's first 7 km undersea rail tunnel
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which is a part of 21 km long tunn
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tunnel between bandra Kura complex and
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shata in Maharashtra we'll cover that in
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another video so make sure to subscribe
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so driving between the cities of Mumbai
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and Ahmedabad takes about 9 hours
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without traffic compared to 6 hours on
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the existing Railway with a top speed of
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almost 200 M over twice as quick as
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India's current fastest the trains on
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the new line will cut that Journey time
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to around 2 hours when we say
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state-of-the-art we do mean it really
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passengers will ride on shenson trains
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the same models used on Japan's famous
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rail network other parts of the system
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like signaling will be Japanese too
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there's more Japan is helping train
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Indian workers and is providing a large
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chunk of the funding too since 2017
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Japan has supplied loans to 650 B Yen
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billion how is it being built a
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high-speed rail network that makes it
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much easier to move people and goods
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between the country's key cities and
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regions would be a big step towards that
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so how has this new Railway been built
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mainly when one end of the line is a
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vast densely populated city of over 20
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million people about 92% of the track
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will be elevated on viaducts and bridges
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which is critical it means the line can
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be built over rivers and existing
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infrastructure and the environmental
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impact is reduced and in theory it's
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easier to acquire land for the railway
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too but not all of it is that simple
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perhaps the most significant engineering
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challenge is th Creek a large Inlet just
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east of Mumbai poses a challenge it's
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the only section on the route where a
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large body of water gets in the way
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instead of continuing to build high
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above the surface it was decided that
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the best way to avoid this obstacle was
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to go underground the result will be the
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first undersea rail tunnel in India 7 km
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long with the whole underground section
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measuring 21 km it'll be a single tube
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with enough space for two trains one in
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each Direction so it needs to have a 13
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M diameter that's pretty big most of it
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will be dug by tunnel boring machines
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except for one 5 km stretch built using
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the new Austrian tunneling method simply
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put a tunnel is first excavated using
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Drilling and Blasting before ground
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supports and reinforcements are added
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followed by a concrete shell on top of a
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waterproof lining it's ideal for shorter
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tunnel runs in varying ground conditions
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construction on the project is now over
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30% complete but it won't be finished
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2028 that's far from the original plan
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though with a 2022 completion date to
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your surprise what went wrong then for
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one thing sticking most of the track up
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on peers has helped to speed up land
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acquisition building Railways is always
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a challenge but it hasn't completely
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solved the problem in early 2022 nearly
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all of the land in Gujarat was acquired
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by the government organization
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delivering the project but further down
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in Maharashtra it was only 75% that was
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largely due to Legal disputes with land
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owners today the overall figure for both
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regions is almost 100% but it's taken
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much longer to reach this stage than it
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was meant to another problem for the
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project was a change of government in
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Maharashtra which temporarily saw an
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anti- bullet train Coalition come into
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power with this new Railway India is on
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the brink of following in their
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footsteps and the Indian Railway is
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confident that the country's first
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bullet train will commence in June July