Mostly funded by a US$17 billion loan from Japan, the bullet train will run between Ahmedabad city and Mumbai. It is expected to cut the 500-kilometre journey time to three hours from the current eight.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is this week laying the foundation stone for India's first high-speed train in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's native state of Gujarat.
Mostly funded by a US$17 billion loan from Japan, the bullet train will run between Ahmedabad city and Mumbai. It is expected to cut the 500-kilometre journey time to three hours from the current eight.
The 750-seat train is scheduled to launch operations in 2022.
India's railway system carries more than 22 million passengers a day and much of the equipment is out of date, leading to frequent accidents and chronic delays, the BBC reports.