Green Signal for Faster Development: India’s New Freight Corridor

[anant_s]

Anybody know how far along the other corridors are?

 

[kaykay]

Delhi-Mumbai Industrial corridor and Western dedicated freight corridor will boost Indian GDP like never before.....Most ambitious projects we have had so far.....
PS: Rest corridors will follow too...

 

[anant_s]

Land Acquisition

 

[fsayed]

So India is going to be a $40TN economy after it is complete, right, right*????!!!

* according to many esteemed members on PDF, $46BN is going to increase Pakistan's GDP by a factor of ten so $90BN will increase India's by a factor of twenty, surly?



Around 95% of the land for the WDFC has been purchsed (stated by the Railway Minister a few weeks back). The WDFC will be complete/operational fully in late 2018/early 2019. The UPA really lost their way with this project despite it being a very good concept, they did a poor job in its execution.

This project will bring down logistics cost from 12 percent now to 6percent same as China

It will be a big boost to our economy and help us to become manufacturing hub like china by 2025

Don't play blame game it's a project of world to replace china with india for manufacturing

 

[proud_indian]

This project will bring down logistics cost from 12 percent now to 6percent same as China

It will be a big boost to our economy and help us to become manufacturing hub like china by 2025

Don't play blame game it's a project of world to replace china with india for manufacturing

It's not a blame game, it's cold hearted reality

DFCC has been registered as a company under the Companies Act 1956 on 30 October 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicated_Freight_Corridor_Corporation_of_India

 

[pikkuboss]

Any news for eastern corridor, specifically sonnagar to dankuni? And Kolkata-mumbai & Kharagpur-vijayawada?

 

[proud_indian]

@fsayed I can give you one more example of congress 's working pace


Locomotive Factories in Bihar: In cold storage for years, two Railway projects to start soon

Sources said the Railways is giving finishing touches to the formalities and awaiting the conclusion of the Bihar Assembly elections to make the announcement for locomotive-factory projects at Madhepura and Marhowra

Written by Avishek G Dastidar | New Delhi | Updated: December 25, 2015 10:51 pm

The deal is that the factories will provide Indian Railways with 800 electric locomotives of 12,000 horse power each and a mix of 1,000 diesel locomotives of 4,500 and 6,000 horsepower each with high level performance guarantee similar to international practices.

Years of red tape, indecision by bureaucrats and seven railway ministers later, the mammoth locomotive-factory projects of Indian Railways at Madhepura and Marhowra in Bihar are finally ready to see the light of day.

Together, the projects represent a foreign direct investment of Rs 3,300 crore in railways under the ‘Make in India’ banner — the biggest ever for the sector. American multinational General Electric and French giant Alstom have qualified as lowest bidders for the diesel and electric loco factories, respectively. The diesel loco factory will cost Rs 2,052 crore, while the electric one will cost Rs 1,293.57 crore.

Sources said the Railways is giving finishing touches to the formalities and awaiting the conclusion of the Bihar Assembly elections to make the announcement.​

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    Railway plants in Bihar to boost manufacturing, jobs: Arun Jaitley

Conceived and announced by former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad in 2006-07 (Marhowra) and 2007-08 (Madhepura) in the Rail Budgets, the projects faced delay with successive governments and dispensations within the ministry undecided on the utility and the route chosen for setting up the factories. Lalu Prasad’s tenure itself did not see significant movement on the matter following the Budget announcements.
The Railways will provide land and own 26 per cent equity in the factories while agreeing to procure locomotives from these factories over 10 years. The two chosen companies, while supplying the engines, will also vouch for its maintenance. The deal is that the factories will provide Indian Railways with 800 electric locomotives of 12,000 horse power each and a mix of 1,000 diesel locomotives of 4,500 and 6,000 horsepower each with high level performance guarantee similar to international practices.
Historically, Rail Bhawan bureaucracy has been divided over the projects, which accounts for the inordinate delay. Concerns have been raised at all levels in the past on the “assured offtake” clause in the deal and whether the very model of the joint venture was giving an unfair advantage to the private parties at the government’s cost.

But towards the fag end, the UPA government in 2014, and significantly towards the beginning, the present NDA government resolved all the concerns and decided to go full throttle on the big-ticket projects. The factories are expected to provide employment opportunities in North Bihar, adding to the thrust on industrial development of the Eastern region.

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[Abingdonboy]

@fsayed I can give you one more example of congress 's working pace

Brother, it's time to start looking to the future not remain stuck in the past. @fsayed is right to say that now is not the time to playing a blame game.

 

[anant_s]

congress 's working pace

Lets move on.
UPA government didn't do much good, but atleast we have someone like Suresh Prabhu, who is getting things moving. Sustained focus and investment are keys to take out Railways (& infra structure sector as whole) from the mess they find themselves right now.

 

[proud_indian]

Brother, it's time to start looking to the future not remain stuck in the past. @fsayed is right to say that now is not the time to playing a blame game.

you are absolutely right we should be looking forward but when I look what is happening right now then I realize what we could have really achieved.
Last ten years were practically wasted by congress.

Whenever I talk to my congress supporter friends, they always use the argument that all the projects that BJP is taking credit of are the brain child of congress. But they never accept what mess they made out of those.

One such project I can tell you is Bharat broadband. In that project they were supposed to connect 250000 gram panchayats with fiber optics by 2013-14 but end of their tenure all they did is about 350.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Broadband_Network

Lets move on.
UPA government didn't do much good, but atleast we have someone like Suresh Prabhu, who is getting things moving. Sustained focus and investment are keys to take out Railways (& infra structure sector as whole) from the mess they find themselves right now.

you are absolutely right, I have never seen a minister as simple and dedicated as Mr.Suresh Prabhu is.

he is pursuing dual PHD's in climate change and economics to enhance his efficiency as a manager.

kudos to him

 

[Sky lord]

Nice map. Looks like the only large state completely left out is Kerala. Perhaps too many land issues and too densely populated and too much labor problems .