The Ministry of Railways (MoR) has commenced the ground survey works for land acquisition of the Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar High-Speed Rail (HSR) Corridor Project. The land is expected to be acquired from 343 villages in Haryana and Punjab.
The project involves the development of a 459-km long HSR corridor between Delhi and Amritsar via Chandigarh, Ludhiana, and Jalandhar. The proposed rail corridor, once commissioned, is expected to cut down the travel time between the two cities from 6-7 hours to less than two and a half hours.