Lalu announces Pre-feasibility study to run Delhi-Patna bullet train

The Minister of Railways, Shri Lalu Prasad has announced that a pre-feasibility study to run bullet train between Delhi and Patna will soon be started.

Presenting the Interim Railway Budget 2009-10 in the Lok Sabha today, Shri Lalu Prasad said that this is in addition to the bullet train proposals between Delhi-Amritsar, Ahmedabad-Mumbai-Pune, Hyderabad-Vijayawada-Chennai, Chennai-Bangalore-Ernakulam and Howrah-Halida which were announced in 2007-08 Railway Budget. The action for examining feasibility study is already on for these routes.

Source : Press Information Bureau

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