Official Website www. Nhsrcl. in.
He said the Nhsrcl has acquired 537 of the 1,387 hectares
land required in Maharashtra and Gujarat.
The court directed the Nhsrcl and the TMC to file their affidavits in response to the petition within a week.
In Gujarat, the Nhsrcl has acquired 471 of 940 hectares of land,
while in Maharashtra, it has acquired 66 of 431 hectares.
Nhsrcl officials say they are hopeful of getting
most of the land required for the project by the time tenders are finalised in mid-2020.
For the post of Director(Rolling Stock), Nhsrcl, two Mechanical Engineering service officers have
been shortlisted although the bullet train is an Electrical Multiple Unit, 25kv system.
Nhsrcl has adopted the strategy of land acquisition by consent,
and not by invoking the various laws that empower government agencies to acquire land for public purposes.
Nhsrcl said in a statement,”In fact,
the Government of India and JICA have already signed a loan agreement of about 10 billion yen and no payment is pending from JICA as on date.”.
In a first, railways is set to build reservoirs in its bullet train depots to store rainwater which would
be used in the maintenance of the high-speed trains, the Nhsrcl, implementing agency for the project, said on Tuesday.