Good news! Bullet train project from Amritsar to Katra has started, the journey of 465 km will be done in just 1 hour 40 minutes.

20 sep 2024

People will soon enjoy bullet train travel between Amritsar-Delhi and Amritsar-Katra. The central government has started work on this project. If this project is completed, the 465 km journey from Amritsar to Delhi will be completed in one hour and 40 minutes.

Apart from this, the 190 km journey from Amritsar to Katra can be completed in one hour. This train will start from Amritsar and reach Katra in one hour via Batala, Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Samba, Jammu.

After the start of work on this project, former BJP MP and former state president Shwet Malik has thanked the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav. He said that their efforts have paid off as Amritsar-Delhi and Amritsar-Katra bullet trains have been started on their demand.

He said that for this he had demanded in the Parliament in the year 2017 that the Amritsar Jammu bullet train should be run for Delhi Amritsar and Katra. The project was passed in the year 2018 and its tender was floated in 2020, now the work is going to start. During his tenure as a Member of Parliament, he made efforts to start work on the Amritsar-Delhi and Amritsar-Katra High Speed ​​Rail Corridor projects, which have now been approved by the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. Work has started on both the projects.