The centre is prioritizing a bullet train project between Delhi and Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Modi. According to an Economic Times report, a Spanish firm INECO-TYPSA-ICT is studying the feasibility of the project. Once operational, the journey would take just two and a half hours to cover 720 km instead of 12 hours now.
The same firm is working on Delhi-Kolkata high-speed corridor and has already submitted the final draft report to high-speed rail corporation and railway board last week.
According to the report, the fare of Rs 4.5/km was considered as base fare which means travel between Delhi to Lucknow will cost at least Rs 1,980 and Delhi to Varanasi will cost around Rs 3,240.
The project will be the third high-speed project at different stages of conception and execution.
The construction on Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor will start in September this year while the Mumbai-Nagpur stretch is on advance stage of getting approvals.
