As the work continues unabated in building the Ram Mandir the government has taken another step to put Ayodhya on the world tourist map by announcing a bullet train between Delhi and the temple town which has now been fast-tracked, reports Times Now.
As per the report, the groundwork has already been started and the Central government is planning to connect New Delhi to three major pilgrimage cities in Uttar Pradesh – Varanasi, Prayagraj, and Ayodhya, via high-speed Bullet Train.
As per plans a 130 km railway track will be laid connecting Ayodhya to Lucknow as part of the 941.5 km high-speed railway corridor linking Delhi to Varanasi via Agra-Lucknow-Allahabad and a portion of the high-speed railway corridor may go underground in Lucknow and Agra, the official said.
The distance between Delhi to Ayodhya is 670 km and the trains will travel between the speeds of 320 km/hour to 350 km/hour and will cut the travel time to just three hours between Delhi and the holy city.
Anoop Kumar Agarwal, executive director of National High-Speed Rail Corporation, visited Ayodhya to finalise the site for the railway station and said, “plan to directly connect the city of Lord Ram with the national capital”.
Already an aerial survey has been done and the plan has also been approved by the Centre and according to Agarwal, “National High-Speed Rail Corporation will begin work as soon as we receive a no-objection certificate from the AAI. It will take seven years for completion of the project,”.
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