RETHINKING IS NEEDED OVER HIGH-SPEED RAILWAYS IN INDIA
REASSESSMENT REQUIRED FOR COVID-19 IMPACT ON SUSTAINABILITY
2021-09-14 11:11
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COVID-19 struck India in early 2020, and the country was put under general lockdown on March 24. The passenger traffic on railway tracks was immediately stopped. On May 1, India restarted running first special passenger train for migrant workers. One by one, special trains restarted, but railways passenger trains are yet to open completely. It caused unprecedented damage to the growth of the railways. In such a situation a reassessment is required on passenger traffic even for the proposed patchwork high-speed Mumbai-Ahmedabad route, not to talk about a high-speed railways network for the country.