India, March 15 -- Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspected the Hyperloop test track at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in Tamil Nadu's Chennai on Saturday, March 15, 2025.

While interacting with mediapersons, the Union Minister explained how the project will function. He was standing in front of the tube, which will function as the 'track' for the Hyperloop pods to operate on.

"Hyperloop is basically like a tube.There will be a vaccuum inside the tube and the pod which will operate inside the tube will operate in a 'levitation' mode," Vaishnaw said.

Explaining what he means by the 'levitation' mode, the BJP leader said, "There will be magnetic fields which raise the pod over the tracks. [The pod] does not move on...