Ashwini Vaishnav has shared a video showing a glimpse of the Bullet Train Project. He said that till November 21, pillars have been built in 251.40 kilometers of this bullet train project.
Country's first bullet train will run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad
Bullet train super structure ready in 103.24 kilometers
Work is going on rapidly on 'Gajraj System'
New Delhi:The first Bullet Train Section in India will be completed between Bilimora and Surat in Gujarat in August 2026. Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw gave this information on social media platform Ashwini Vaishnav has shared a video showing a glimpse of the Bullet Train Project. He said that till November 21, pillars have been built in 251.40 kilometers of this bullet train project. Super structure is also ready in 103.24 kilometers. This section is of 50 kilometers.
Ashwini Vaishnav's statement about the Bullet Train comes after her update last week in which she had said that an important step has been taken for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Corridor, which includes work on 100 km of bridges and 230 km of ferries. Completion of which Bilimora-Surat section is a part.
The video posted by Ashwini Vaishnav on The video shows bridges being built across 6 rivers - Par in Valsad district and Aurangabad, Purna in Navsari, Mindhola, Ambika and Vengania as part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad corridor.
Apart from the Railway Minister, National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited has shared drone videos of these bridges. Some of these bridges have already been built. National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited wrote the caption - " Bullet Speed".
Talking about the armor system,
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav also talked about the armor system. He told that at present there is an armor network of 1500 km every year. There will be 2500km Kavach network every year from 2014. The work of Kavach technique was approved in 2016. It is an indigenously developed warning system to prevent collision on the track. It came into limelight after the terrible train accident in Balasore, Odisha in June this year. About 300 people were killed in this accident.
Ashwini Vaishnav said that this technique will also help in preventing collision between elephants and trains. To better connect different parts of the country and build more tracks, work is going on at a rapid pace on 'Gajraj System'. The entire 700km work will be completed in 7 months. He told that last year a network of 5243 km of new tracks was laid. This year a target has been set to lay 5500-6000 kilometers of track.
The country's first bullet train will run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe launched this project in Ahmedabad on 14 September 2017. This project has been named Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor.
Increased number of trains:
The Railway Minister also said that the number of new trains in India has increased compared to before the Corona epidemic. Earlier the number of Mail Express trains was 1768, which has now increased to 21241,768. The number of sub-urban trains was earlier 5626, which has now become 5774. The number of passenger trains was earlier 2792, now the number has increased to 2856. He said that during the same period the number of passenger trains has increased from 2,792 to 2,856.
Target to serve 750 crore passengers:
Overall, Railways served 640 crore passengers in 2022/2023. A target has been set to serve 750 crore passengers in the year 2023/2024.
The European Court of Justice upholds a ban on wearing the hijab in the workplace
The European Court of Justice ended the debate that had been going on for years in the EU countries and issued a decision Thursday banning the wearing of the hijab in companies and workplaces, under the pretext of “enjoying neutrality and preventing the wearing of all signs that constitute direct discrimination between employees.”
The European Union Court of Justice said on Thursday that companies in the bloc can ban the hijab as long as it is a general ban that does not discriminate between employees, in the latest ruling in a case that has divided Europe for years.
The case concerns a Muslim woman who was told that she could not wear the hijab when she applied for six-week job training at a Belgian company.
The company said that it follows what it called a “neutral rule” that does not allow wearing a head covering, whether it is a hat, hat, or scarf, at its headquarters. The woman filed her complaint with a Belgian court, which in turn sought advice from the Court of Justice of the European Union.
The Supreme Court, based in Luxembourg, said that there is no direct discrimination in such a ban, as it put it.
The judges’ decision stated: “An internal rule for any economic activity prohibiting the wearing of visible religious, philosophical or spiritual signs does not constitute direct discrimination if it is applied to all employees in a general and non-discriminatory manner.”
The court said last year that European Union companies could prevent employees from wearing head coverings under certain circumstances if they had to present a neutral image to customers.
In Germany, the ban on the hijab for women at work has sparked controversy for years, and most of the cases relate to female teachers who aspired to work in public schools and women training to advance to the judiciary.
France, which has the largest Muslim minority in Europe, has banned the wearing of the hijab in public schools since 2004. At the same time, it obligated female government employees in general to exercise what it calls “complete neutrality,” without the French authorities legally resolving the issue of wearing the hijab in other companies and institutions.
In 2014, the French Supreme Court upheld a ruling to dismiss a worker from her job because she wore the hijab. Recently, as part of the separatism bill approved by the French Senate, a fierce campaign was launched in France, inflamed by the extreme right, fighting the condition of any girl under the age of 18 to wear the hijab.
For years, European countries have engaged in intense discussions pushing towards enacting laws preventing the ban of all religious symbols within educational institutions and major facilities in these countries.
With the recent decision issued by the Supreme Court, the fears of Muslims in Europe of racist exclusion and the widening circle of harassment against them are rising behind the veil of the law.