Indian Railways bullet train suffers massive setback; mangoes to blame!

Protests, backed by local politicians, have flared up in recent months against attempts to secure sections of a 108-km stretch, which is around one-fifth of the entire bullet train corridor connecting Mumbai with Ahmedabad, the largest commercial city in PM Narendra Modi`s home state Gujarat. Failure to procure the bullet train land by the deadline would delay disbursal of soft-loans by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a government development body, which is reviewing the project next month.

Indian Railways bullet train suffers massive setback; mangoes
India must create relocation plans for local residents and make them public in order to enter into a loan agreement covering the main part of the bullet train project. Image source: Reuters

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