Ai Abe's era's high-speed rail is still not in sight, India has set its eyes on Japan's new technology
India is about to cooperate with Japan again in building high-speed rail.
According to a report from the Japanese Kyodo News, on the 29th, Indian Prime Minister Modi will visit Japan for a two-day trip and have dinner with Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru. "It is expected that both sides will reach a consensus on the issue of Japan's E10 series high-speed rail entering India."
According to the information, the E10 is Japan's next-generation Shinkansen train (the successor to the current E5 Shinkansen), and it is expected to be commercially operated in Japan in the 2030s.
In July this year, the Indian railway department announced that, in the spirit of the India-Japan strategic partnership, the Japanese government has agreed to introduce the E10 Shinkansen train into the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project in India, and the time of operation will be the same as Japan, both set for the 2030s.
But there is one problem: Has the high-speed rail built by Japan for India been completed?
As everyone knows, the Japan-India high-speed rail project was a signed agreement between former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Prime Minister Modi in 2017, but even though Abe has long been assassinated and the Japanese government has changed several times, the high-speed rail supported by Japan has still not been completed.
According to Indian media, the original plan was to open the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail in 2022, but it has been postponed to 2028, and the project cost has soared from the initial 12.65 billion U.S. dollars to 18.7 billion U.S. dollars.
As for whether the Indian high-speed rail can be completed and opened in 2028, no one dares to guarantee it now.
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