Ahmedabad: Japan’s Parliamentary Vice Minister for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Akimoto Masatoshi Saturday was on visit to the city of Ahmedabad to inspect the sites of Japanese government assisted Ahmedabad – Mumbai high speed railway (bullet train) project and Ahmedabad Metro Rail project at Kalupur railway station. He was accompanied by a delegation from Japan and officials of the two projects as well as officials of the Ahmedabad division of the Indian Railways.

Speaking to media persons he said, he noticed a lot of interest among Indians in Japanese cooperation in high-speed rail and the metro projects. Japan has a bigger responsibility to respond to the expectations of the Indians. He said that his government would continue to cooperate with its Indian counterpart in the completion of the two projects.

He said that the site of the metro rail project near Kalupur railway station project was very difficult and complex. Japan would continue to support India to make sure this difficult construction is completed. He added that the construction of the underground route near Kalupur was one of the difficult parts and was being done using a tunnel boring machine.