Delayed by more than five years, the work on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail corridor has gained pace of late with completion of 50 km of viaduct and 180 km of pier works.
According to the MAHSR status report as on 22 April, 2023, the project achieved another milestone of cumulative 50 km launching of full span and segmental girders for viaduct and 50.16 km of viaduct is completed which includes 9.1 km of continuous viaduct near Vadodara and 41.06 km erected at different locations.
Pile has been cast over a length of 285.8 km, with foundation over 215.9 km and piers have been constructed over a stretch of 182.4 km.
As far as girder casting is concerned, 1,882 girders adding up to over 75.3 kms have been cast so far.
According to MAHSR, construction work has started in full swing all along the alignment passing through eight districts of Gujarat and Dadra Nagar Haveli.
While the works on eight high speed rail stations from Vapi to Sabarmati are under various stages of construction, a rail level slab of 250 m at Surat, 150 m at Anand and 50 m at Bilimora HSR stations have been cast.
Anand/Nadiad HSR station is the first station on MAHSR corridor to complete the concourse level (first level of the station) of 425 m long and concourse level slab of 60 m at Ahmedabad and 300 m at Surat HSR stations have been cast.
Bridge Works on important rivers including Narmada, Tapti, Mahi and Sabarmati is in progress while the Par River Bridge is the first river bridge completed in January 2023.
The Land acquisition process which caused the maximum delay for the project, is almost complete now.
While financial bids were opened on 6 April, 2023 for construction of 21 km tunnel between Mumbai HSR Station and Shilphata including 7 km undersea tunnel for the project, technical bids were opened on 12 April, 2023 for remaining 135 km alignment in Maharashtra including three stations – Thane, Virar and Boisar.