Vadodara: The National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL), which is implementing the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, has invited bids for around 8.2 km stretch of the high-speed rail (HSR) corridor in Vadodara.
The bids have been invited for the C-5 civil package.
It includes design and construction of civil and building works including testing and commissioning for double line HSR involving Vadodara HSR station, confirmation car base, viaducts and bridges, crossing bridges and associated works.
It is worth mentioning here that alignment of the HSR in Vadodara has been changed.
NHSRCL has saved at least Rs 2,000 crore with re-alignment of HSR corridor in Vadodara.
The earlier plan was to construct HSR station by dismantling the existing platform number six of Vadodara railway station.
After re-alignment, the HSR station of the bullet train project will now come up at platform number seven of the railway station.The initial survey for HSR alignment was done in early 2017.
In Vadodara station area, the HSR alignment was designed to cross the yard from east to west near the platform area where almost 13 railway lines were to be crossed.The bridge span was proposed to cross the railway tracks from west to east.
But the site was coming in the red colour coded zoning map (CCZM) zone – the flight path of the aircrafts coming in and out to the Vadodara airport which required clearance of air space from the Airport Authority of India (AAI).
For launch of the girders, all the flight movements needed to be cancelled which was not approved by the AAI.
The proposed location of HSR is now in front of the central and local bus depot.