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Indian Railways to allow private players for bullet train projects

The projects -Delhi-Varanasi, Mumbai-Nagpur, Delhi-Ahmedabad, Chennai-Mysore, Delhi-Amritsar, Mumbai-Hyderabad, and Varanasi-Howrah - are expected to cost around Rs 10 trillion

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This comes when the railways is trying to attract private players for its Rs 1-trillion station redevelopment and Rs 30,000 crore private train project

Shine Jacob New Delhi
The Indian Railways, in a major development, is set to have private players for constructing and operating its planned seven new bullet train projects.

The projects —Delhi-Varanasi, Mumbai-Nagpur, Delhi-Ahmedabad, Chennai-Mysore, Delhi-Amritsar, Mumbai-Hyderabad, and Varanasi-Howrah — are expected to cost around Rs 10 trillion. “All the seven new bullet train routes will be open for private players. We will be doing it on a public private-partnership model,” said V K Yadav, chairman and chief executive officer of the Railway Board.  These routes will be in addition to the already planned Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project.

This comes when the railways is trying to attract