India has sought China's assistance to speed up Bangalore-Chennai railway corridor besides redevelopment of Agra and Jhansi railway stations, a senior Indian official said today. "We offered them speeding up of Bangalore-Chennai railway corridor," NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said today. Kumar said it was pointed out to the Chinese side that the railway station development plan is a big one involving about 600 of them. Also read Central Railway to use drones to locate accident-prone zonesChina has been expressing interest to take up high speed train corridors in India and began conducting a feasibility study for New Delhi and Chennai high speed train corridor. The first high-speed train corridor in India between Mumbai and Ahmedabad has been bagged by Japan.

Source: dna April 15, 2018 10:30 UTC