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Passengers on the India's first bullet train that will race between Mumbai and Ahmedabad
will spend a part of their journey under water
Railway Ministry official said to the Press Trust of India that nearly 500-km route planned
and including a 21-km long tunnel through the sea,
according to reports, under-the-sea stretch will lie near the Thane creek towards Virar
The bullet train is meant to connect Mumbai with Ahmedabad in about two hours with an
average speed of 320 kilometres per hour.
An express train currently takes about seven hours for the same journey.
In December, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited India and committed to 12 billion
dollars of soft loans to build the high-speed train. The interest rate is just 0.1 percent
rate with repayment over 50 years and a moratorium for 15 years.
The loan agreement with Japan is likely to be signed by the end of the year and construction
work is likely to begin by the end of 2018