Indian Railways is making significant progress on its various projects, including the ambitious bullet train project. The railway minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, provided updates on both the bullet train and the indigenous 'Kavach' automatic train protection system. He announced that the 50-kilometer stretch between Bilimora and Surat in Gujarat for the bullet...
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train project will be completed by August 2026. He also highlighted the successful installation of the 'Kavach' system on 1,500 kilometers of railway tracks and significant progress towards covering 3,000 kilometers on the Mumbai-Howrah and Delhi-Howrah routes. Furthermore, Vaishnaw mentioned a significant increase in the number of trains operating compared to pre-pandemic levels, with a target of transporting 750 crore passengers in 2023-24. Recent updates on the bullet train project indicate the completion of 251 kilometers of pillar construction and 103.24 kilometers of elevated superstructures.