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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw connected Friday (January 2, 2026) virtually witnessed the last breakthrough of a 1.5-km-long upland passageway of the slug bid task successful Maharashtra's Palghar territory from Rail Bhawan successful New Delhi.
"This 1.5-km-long upland passageway is among the longest successful Palghar territory and is located betwixt the Virar and Boisar slug bid stations. It is the 2nd passageway breakthrough successful Maharashtra, arsenic the archetypal 5-km-long underground passageway betwixt Thane and BKC was completed successful September 2025," a Railway Ministry property enactment said.
Hon'ble MR Shri @AshwiniVaishnaw echoed "Bharat Mata ki Jai" successful unison, marking the breakthrough of Maharashtra's archetypal upland passageway (MT-5) successful Palghar territory connected the Nation's archetypal #BulletTrain project. pic.twitter.com/VNoWOibv8W
— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) January 2, 2026The 508-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail project, which passes done Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, is India's lone high-speed obstruction task designed to run slug trains astatine a velocity of 320 kmph, covering the full region successful 2 hours and 17 minutes.
The task is being executed with method and fiscal assistance from the Japanese government.
