NHSRCL submitted a tender for Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project for the elevated station at Anand, Gujarat.

By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter

For the optimistic Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project, the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) has opened a tender, the third in 2019, with bids offered for a maintenance depot and an elevated station in Anand, Gujarat. With the recent tender, the company has invited offers to construct about 69% (348 km) of the 508-km project, which is expected to be launched in 2023.

The project includes 21kms of tunnels, five elevated stations and one warehouse in Surat. The recent bid by NHSRCL’s is for the planning and development of civil and building projects, including the inspection and commissioning of 90 km of viaducts and bridges, a maintenance depot and an elevated station between Vadodara and Ahmedabad. Vendors were provided four months to bid for the venture, while they were assigned 1,370 days to finish the work. More than 66% of the property needed for the above tender was acquired.

Bids for a viaduct between Zaroli village on the border of Maharashtra-Gujarat and Vadodara in Gujarat were invited earlier this year. It also included 24 crossings of the river and 30 roads and canal crossings and four stations – Vapi, Bilimora, Surat and Bharuch. The other tender for this year was about 21 km for the underground tunnel, including 7 km of Maharashtra’s undersea tunnel.