India and Sri Lanka — Concept Stage

India and Sri Lanka — a network to the MMC standard.

13 corridors linking 43 cities, about 11,500 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 13,800 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 3 cross-border links and crossings. The corridors follow India’s trunk lines between Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, with the South Asian Spine along the Ganges, links to Pakistan and Bangladesh, and a Palk Strait crossing to Sri Lanka.

The Network Concept

The corridors.

Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.

Schematic map of an MMC network concept for India and Sri Lanka: corridors, cross-border links, sea crossings, mountain tunnels and the spines. — MMC India and Sri Lanka network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.

Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.

IN-1 Western: Delhi – Jaipur – Ahmedabad – Vadodara – Surat – Mumbai
IN-2 Mumbai–Chennai: Mumbai – Pune – Hubballi – Bengaluru – Chennai
IN-3 East Coast: Chennai – Nellore – Vijayawada – Visakhapatnam – Bhubaneswar – Kolkata
IN-4 Ganges: Delhi – Agra – Kanpur – Lucknow – Varanasi – Patna – Kolkata
IN-5 North–South: Agra – Bhopal – Nagpur – Hyderabad – Bengaluru
IN-6 Mumbai–Kolkata: Mumbai – Nagpur – Raipur – Kolkata
IN-7 Punjab: Delhi – Chandigarh – Ludhiana – Amritsar
IN-8 North-East: Kolkata – Siliguri – Guwahati
IN-9 Tamil Nadu: Bengaluru – Salem – Madurai – Rameswaram
IN-10 Kerala: Thiruvananthapuram – Kochi – Coimbatore – Salem
LK-1 Western: Talaimannar – Anuradhapura – Kurunegala – Colombo – Galle
LK-2 Hill Country: Colombo – Kandy
LK-3 Northern: Jaffna – Vavuniya – Anuradhapura

India and Sri Lanka — a network to the MMC standard.

The corridors.

To initiate the programme in India and Sri Lanka.