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PM Narendra Modi, Japan PM Shinzo Abe lay foundation stone for India’s first bullet train

PM Narendra Modi, Japan PM Shinzo Abe lay foundation stone for India’s first bullet train

3Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe will lay the foundation stone of the ambitious Rs 1.08 lakh crore Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project on Thursday.
PM Narendra Modi and Japan PM Shinzo Abe lay foundation stone for India’s first High Speed Rail project.
Gujarat CM who is also taking part in the event says, “The entire Gujarat is experiencing immense joy today.”
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis who is sharing the dais with PM Modi and Abe, says we are not only laying the foundation stone of bullet train, but also laying foundation of ‘New India’.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal greets Shinzo Abe, says the Bullet Train will be a symbol of brotherhood between the Indians and the Japanese.
PM Modi and his Japanese counterpart inspect a model of the high speed rail from Mumbai to Ahmedabad.
PM Modi and Shinzo Abe arrive at the stage for inauguration of High Speed Rail from Mumbai to Ahmedabad.
Japan’s first lady Akie Abe to visit Blind People’s Association in Ahmedabad.
A landmark civil nuclear deal between the two countries providing for collaboration between their industries in the field had come into force in July.
There may be specific discussions on the long-pending Indian proposal to buy the US-2 amphibious aircraft from Japan and joint development of military equipment to further deepen the defence ties in sync with strategic partnership between the two countries.
India is expected to seal the deal to buy the US-2 amphibious aircraft from Japan.
If the deal goes through, India will buy 12 US-2 ShinMaywa aircrafts in flyway condition and another 18 will be jointly manufactured in India.
Notably, last year, China had reacted angrily to reports that Japan plans to sell weapons to India at cheaper prices, saying that such a move is disgraceful.
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley and his Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera on September 5 held wide-ranging talks, as part of the India-Japan annual defence ministerial dialogue in Tokyo during which issues relating to the US-2 amphibious aircraft also figured.
PM Mod and Abe will hold the 12th Indo-Japan annual Summit meeting at Gandhinagar after which agreements will be exchanged. Later, an India-Japan business plenary meeting will be held.
Fifteen agreements will be signed for investments in Gujarat during the visit of the Japanese prime minister.
This is the fourth annual summit between Modi and Abe, where they are expected to review the progress in the multifaceted cooperation between India and Japan under the framework of their Special Strategic and Global Partnership.
Japan is one of only two countries with which India has such an annual summit mechanism, the other being Russia.
The two Prime Ministers will also attend an India-Japan Business Leaders Forum.

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