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Vaishnaw On Bullet Trains Says, “Lot More Needs To Be Learnt”

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Vaishnaw said, “Once there is further development in the project, new corridors across the country will be taken up”

Varanasi: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said while the country has made significant progress in bringing bullet trains to the country, a lot more needs to be learnt before the new technology is implemented in the country.

Speaking to ANI at Varanasi on Saturday, the railway minister said, “A lot needs to be learnt upon initiating a new project with new technology. Everyone is absorbing the system and learning from it.” Vaishnaw added that once further progress is made in the country’s very own bullet train project, newer corridors will be announced. “Once there is further development in the project, new corridors across the country will be taken up.”

While work is ongoing on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail or bullet train project, a raft of ‘Vande Bharat’ trains are already in service in multiple corridors. The fourth ‘Vande Bharat’ train, which is to connect Una in Himachal Pradesh to Chandigarh and Delhi was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October this year.

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For the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed Rail corridor, the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) recently invited bids for the tunnelling work for 21 km (approx) long tunnel including a 7-km undersea tunnel using Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) and New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM).

According to a statement, the tunnel will be between the underground station at Bandra-Kurla Complex and Shilphata in Maharashtra. The 7-km undersea tunnel at Thane Creek will be the first of its kind in the country. The tunnel will be a single tube tunnel to accommodate a twin track for both up and down the track.

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Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 Case: ED Records Statement Of Manish Sisodia’s PA, Raids Five Places

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Sisodia said that the ED registered a “false” case against him after which it raided his PA’s house and “arrested” him

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday questioned Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s personal assistant following raids conducted at five places in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) in connection with Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 money laundering case, sources said.

The agency is also learnt to have picked a few suspects, including Devendra Sharma, a close aide and personal assistant of Sisodia, from their houses in Delhi and NCR. All the suspects, who were picked from their houses during ED’s search operation, are being questioned at ED’s headquarters here under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) provisions.

In a tweet, Sisodia said that the ED registered a “false” case against him after which it raided his PA’s house and “arrested” him.

“After lodging false FIR, they raided my house, searched bank lockers, and checked in my village but found nothing against me. Today, ED conducted a raid at my PA’s house. When ED did not find anything there either, they arrested him and took him away. BJP people! So much fear of losing the election..,” Sisodia tweeted in Hindi.

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In October, the ED had also raided nearly three dozen locations in Delhi and Punjab following the arrest of Sameer Mahendru, Managing Director of Delhi’s Jor Bagh-based liquor distributor Indospirit Group, in the case.

Among the accused in the case is Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the then Excise Commissioner Arva Gopi Krishna, Deputy Commissioner Anand Tiwari and Assistant Commissioner Pankaj Bhatnagar.

Other accused are Manoj Rai, a former employee of Pernod Ricard; Amandeep Dhal, director of Brindco Sales; director of Buddy Retail Amit Arora, and Dinesh Arora; authorised signatories of Mahadev Liquors Sunny Marwah, Arun Ramchandra Pillai and Arjun Pandey.

The ED and the CBI had alleged that irregularities were committed while modifying the Excise Policy, undue favours were extended to licence holders, the licence fee was waived or reduced and the L-1 licence was extended without the competent authority’s approval. The beneficiaries diverted “illegal” gains to the accused officials and made false entries in their books of account to evade detection.

An alleged, the Excise Department had decided to refund the Earnest Money Deposit of about Rs 30 crore to a successful tenderer against the set rules. Even though there was no enabling provision, a waiver on tendered licence fees was allowed from December 28, 2021, to January 27, 2022, due to COVID-19.

This allegedly caused a loss of Rs 144.36 crore to the exchequer, said the FIR, which has been instituted on a reference from the Union Home Ministry following a recommendation from Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena.

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