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Larsen and Toubro’s transport infrastructure business vertical won order worth ₹2,500-5,000 crore from the National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd.
The deets: the deal covers 156 km of high-speed ballastless track between BKC in Mumbai and Zaroli village in Gujarat. It includes 21 km of underground sections and 135 km of elevated viaducts.
The company will handle design, supply, construction, testing, and commissioning using Japan’s Shinkansen J Slab Track technology, which allows trains to hit speeds of 320 kmph.
Why it matters: once complete, the Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train will cut travel time between the two cities from over 6 hours by rail to about 2 hours.
This is L&T’s second major bullet train track order. Back in 2022, it bagged the 116 km package between Vadodara and Sabarmati. With the new win, L&T now controls more than half of all track work on the project.
Big theme: India’s high-speed rail dream is massive, with over 6,000 km of bullet train corridors planned across the country. The flagship Mumbai–Ahmedabad project alone is worth ₹1.1 lakh crore, funded largely by a soft loan from Japan, and is expected to be operational by 2030.
Beyond that, the government has identified seven more corridors including Delhi–Varanasi, Delhi–Ahmedabad, Mumbai–Nagpur, and Chennai–Mysuru. Together, these projects could involve investments upwards of ₹10 lakh crore.
