Mumbai-Ahmedabad part of Indias bullet practice mission will open by 2029: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in Surat

The 50-km stretch of India’s first bullet practice mission between Surat and Bilimora in Gujarat will open in 2027, and by 2029, the whole part between Mumbai and Ahmedabad might be operational, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw mentioned in Surat on Saturday (September 27, 2025).

After turning into operational, the bullet practice will cowl the gap between Mumbai and Ahmedabad in simply two hours and 7 minutes, he mentioned, stressing that India’s first bullet practice mission is progressing very effectively.

Mr. Vaishnaw visited the under-construction Surat bullet practice station and inspected monitor set up works and its first turnout set up.

“Overall progress of the first bullet train project is very good. The first 50-km section of the project between Surat and Bilimora will be open by 2027. We are preparing for that. By 2028, the entire Thane-Ahmedabad section will be commissioned, and by 2029, the entire Mumbai-Ahmedabad section will open,” he advised reporters.

Mr. Vaishnaw said that the velocity potential of the principle line is 320 kmph and 80 kmph for the loop line.

The Railway Minister said that probably the most fashionable applied sciences are being utilized to make sure the protected and environment friendly motion of trains.

“This is a very complex movement of trains, that’s why the most modern technologies are being used. Several vibration mechanisms have been created here. The utility cable will take the vibrations whenever the train is moving at 320 kmph,” he mentioned.

Even inside the tracks, many mechanisms have been put in place to soak up any vibration, he added.

“There are very special safety features on the track so that the train is very stable, even if there is a very heavy gust of wind or a sudden earthquake,” mentioned Mr. Vaishnaw.

Mr. Vaishnaw mentioned the whole heavy work for Surat station is accomplished, and ending and utility works are progressing quicker together with the monitor hyperlink.

“Today, the first turnout has been installed here in the Surat station on the bullet train project. Turnout is the place where the track either joins or separates. A lot of new technologies have been used here, for example, these roller bearings on which the tracks will move. This is again a totally new technology that we are using. The sleepers are made of composite material,” he mentioned.

Mr. Vaishnaw mentioned the bold bullet practice mission will flip economies of all main cities from Mumbai to Ahmedabad into one and spur development like Japan when the primary bullet practice was launched.

“We hope to start work on the new projects very soon. In our party’s (BJP’s) manifesto, we have promised three more corridors in the north, one in the east, and one in the south. Mumbai-Ahmedabad is in the western part of the country. We will have four bullet train corridors as we go forward,” he mentioned.