Economic zone to come up on bullet train route

New Corridors Considered

- RAJESH KUMAR THAKUR @ New Delhi

LIKE in Japan, the route for India's first bullet train, currently under construction, has been designed to create a large and unified economic zone across the states it passes through.

The economic zones, which will be established once the bullet train services between Mumbai and Ahmedabad begin, are expected to yield economic benefits through industrialisation. "The biggest advantage of the bullet train is that it brings together 5-6 cities to form a single economic zone," Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw recently said. "The bullet train project is not only a means of transportation, but it is a project for the growth of the entire region," he added.