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National High Speed ​​Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has awarded its latest civil package for infrastructure construction for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad express train project on the 135km route between Thane and Poisar. With this, NHSRCL has awarded all civil contracts for the high-speed rail corridor, the company announced Thursday.
In a statement, NHSRCL said it had awarded the contract for the civil and construction works which include a bridge, viaducts, tunnel and maintenance depot with three terminals – Thane, Virar and Boisar – and some connected works for Thane Depot between Shilphat and Zaroli.
This 135 km package spreads between Shilvata and Zaroli village on the Maharashtra and Gujarat border. It includes a bridge and bridges with a length of 124 km. The package includes 36 bridges and crossings, 12 of which are steel bridges, and six mountain tunnels. It will also include bridges on the Ulhas, Vaitarna and Jagani rivers.
“NHSRCL awards its last civil package (C3) along the 135 km Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR (High Speed ​​Rail) including seven tunnels and the longest two-kilometer bridge over Vitarna River in Maharashtra,” the authority said in a statement.
With this, all three civil packages for the Maharashtra portion – construction of the HSR station in Mumbai (BKC) (C1), 21 km of tunnel including a 7 km undersea tunnel (C2) and 135 km of alignment (C3) – of the MAHSR corridor have been awarded, she added.
“This also marks the award of all 11 civil beams of the 508-kilometre MAHSR Corridor, which includes 465 kilometers of long bridges, 12 HSR stations, three rolling stock depots, 28 steel bridges comprising 10 kilometers of bridges, 24 river bridges, and nine tunnels including India’s first seven kilometer undersea tunnel.
The entire corridor is divided into 28 node bundles. No less than 11 of these civilian packages, which were awarded in a 33-month period.
The first civil contract for the construction of a 237-kilometre bridge, including four HSR terminals – Vapi, Bilimora, Surat and Bharuch – and the Surat roller coaster depot in Gujarat was awarded on October 28, 2020, which was also the largest civil contract awarded in India. The last 135km civil contract with three HSR terminals in Maharashtra was awarded on July 19, 2023.
They added that this huge infrastructure project is expected to consume 1.6 crore cubic meters of cement and 17,000 metric tons of steel and act as a catalyst to give a boost to the cement and steel industries.
Track works for the complete MAHSR section in Gujarat – 352 km out of a total of 508 km – have also been awarded.
He also started training Indian engineers and labor leaders on the high-speed rail track system. About 20 Japanese experts will give extensive training to about 1,000 Indian engineers, supervisors and technicians and certify their skills.
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