Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor to be opened by 2019
Indian Railways hopes that the 1839 kilometer (km) Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) project between Ludhiana in Punjab and Dankuni in West Bengal will be commissioned by 2019.
The 1839 km route of Eastern DFC is being developed to augment the rail transport capacity to meet the growing requirement of movement of freight traffic on the route.
The assurance for completion of the mega project in next six years came from the minister of state for Railways Manoj Sinha when he was answering a question in Parliament despite the fact that at present work is going on only over 465 km of the total 1839 Km project.
However, Sonnagar-Dankuni section is not feature in the project, to be completed by 2019.
"The Eastern DFC (excluding Sonnagar-Dankuni Section) is likely to be commissioned by 2019," India Coal Market Watch quoting Mr Sinha as saying.
He said civil construction works of Khurja-Kanpur Section(343 km) of Eastern DFC have commenced and approximately 25% of work has been completed. Works on 122 km Mughalsarai-Sonnagar Section of Eastern DFC are also progressing well.
He pointed that 3861 Hectare of land out of 5550 Hectare required for the Project have been notified for land acquisition under Section 20 F of the Railway Amendment Act 2008. UNI PC RD1520 NNNN
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