NHSRCL Invites Survey Bids for Mumbai – Nagpur High Speed Rail

National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) today invited bids for the first ever preparatory survey work to develop the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the upcoming 741 km Mumbai – Nasik – Nagpur High Speed Rail (bullet train) project in Maharashtra.

After the 865 km Delhi – Varanasi High Speed Rail Line and 886 km Delhi – Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Line, this is the third of six new high speed rail corridors, planned by the Government of India in 2019, for which basic preliminary work has commenced to start construction on the project.

On the Mumbai end of the line, the line’s new civil infrastructure is expected to start from Thane, or thereabouts, and branch off from the 508.17 km Mumbai Ahmedabad High Speed Rail corridor which is riddled with land acquisition issues, high bids quoted by infrastructure companies and an indifferent incumbent state government in Maharashtra.

NHSRCL/CO/EL/POWER/2020/25

Scope: Survey, Identification of Overhead, Over Ground, Underground Utilities And Identification Of Power Sourcing Options for substations Along The Proposed Mumbai- Nasik-Nagpur High Speed Rail Corridor.

  • Period of Work: 112 days
  • Bid Submission End Date: 29-Sep-2020 03:00 PM
  • Bid Opening Date: 30-Sep-2020 03:00 PM

Update: 6 additional tender notices have been published.

NHSRCL/CO/CA/DATA/2020/28

Scope: Data Collection and Associated Survey Work

  • Period of Work: 120 days
  • Bid Submission End Date: 17-Oct-2020 03:00 PM
  • Bid Opening Date: 19-Oct-2020 03:00 PM

NHSRCL/CO/CA/SIA/2020/31

Scope: Preparation of Detailed Social Impact (SIA), Resettlement Action Plan (RAP)

  • Period of Work: 180 days
  • Bid Submission End Date: 21-Oct-2020 03:00 PM
  • Bid Opening Date: 22-Oct-2020 03:00 PM

NHSRCL/CO/CA/EIA/2020/20

Scope: Preparation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

  • Period of Work: 180 days
  • Bid Submission End Date: 20-Oct-2020 03:00 PM
  • Bid Opening Date: 21-Oct-2020 03:00 PM

NHSRCL/CO/CA/TRAFFIC/2020/29

Scope: Carrying out Ridership Study (Traffic Study)

  • Period of Work: 120 days
  • Bid Submission End Date: 13-Oct-2020 03:00 PM
  • Bid Opening Date: 14-Oct-2020 03:00 PM

NHSRCL/CO/CA/LIDAR/2020/32

Scope: Final Alignment Design including LiDAR survey

  • Period of Work: 150 days
  • Bid Submission End Date: 19-Oct-2020 03:00 PM
  • Bid Opening Date: 20-Oct-2020 03:00 PM

NHSRCL/CO/CA/GAD/2020/27

Scope: Preparation of GADs of Crossing Bridges over Rivers Canals Railways and Roads Expressway NH SH and Major District Roads and GADs of proposed Stations and Maintenance Depots

  • Period of Work: 90 days
  • Bid Submission End Date: 19-Oct-2020 03:00 PM
  • Bid Opening Date: 20-Oct-2020 03:00 PM
Indicative alignment of the Mumbai – Nasik – Nagpur High Speed Rail line – view information & route map

The bidding documents will be available to download tomorrow morning at 9 am, so it’ll be interesting to see if NHSRCL reveals any of the planned station names or their numbers within it. If they do, I’ll add an update here.

Update: 12 new stations are tentatively planned to be built at Shahapur, Igatputi, Nasik, Shirdi, Aurangabad, Jalna, Mehkar, Malegaon Jahangir, Karanja Lad, Pulgaon, Wardha and Nagpur

The finalization of the line’s alignment is months, if not years, away, but the line is expected to partly follow the under construction 701 km Samruddhi Mahamarg Expressway (Nagpur Mumbai Super Communication Expressway) which will connect 10 districts of the state.

If the Delhi – Ahmedabad line’s development is anything to go by, then in the coming days NHSRCL will invite bids for the line’s Ridership (Traffic Study), General Alignment Drawings, and Final Alignment Design including LiDAR survey.

For more updates, check out the High Speed Rail section of The Metro Rail Guy!

– TMRG

Hat-tip to Sanskar Bapna

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Global traveler who prefers mass rapid transit

13 Responses to "NHSRCL Invites Survey Bids for Mumbai – Nagpur High Speed Rail"

  1. Balu Gadage says:

    Very good decision , I am excepting pune Nashik rail link work to be started immediately

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  2. Saket says:

    Any update on the station names?

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  3. Clevin Gomes says:

    I guess this Line can be extend further till Kolkata as well.

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  4. Subrata Karmakar says:

    Have any land surveyor vacancy? For viaduct metro rail project .

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  5. Piyush says:

    In the “Period of Work”, you mention “112 days” (approx 4 months).
    Does that mean that if the bid is awarded on 1 Jan 2021, the work should be finished by April 2021? If this is the case, it will be very good progress!

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  6. Mashahoor Alam says:

    I am a Signalling Expert having more than 40 years experience in Indian Railways, DFCCIL and Metro projects. Looking for an apportunity to serve further in such high speed projects.

    Mashahoor Alam

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  7. Sammy Reddy says:

    Who is the Project Lead Construction Contractor/s for this MUMBAI -NAGPUR Speed rail.
    sure Guess: Larson and Toubro may be one of they.

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  8. Jitesh Rameshrao Deshmukh says:

    प्रकल्पात जमीन किती अधिग्रहित केली जाणार आहे

    Reply

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