Work on the 1,805 km-long Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor project would start next week when Congress President Sonia Gandhi inaugurates it in Bihar’s Rohtas district. Gandhi along with Railway Minister Lalu Prasad will flag off the work on the project on February 10.
Over the last two to three years rail freight traffic has grown by 8 to 11 per cent and is projected to touch 1100 million tonnes by the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan. The Rs 30,000 crore Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) project, one of the flagship projects of railways, is envisaged to carry the projected volume of freight traffic. While The Eastern Freight Corridor project aims to link Dankuni in West Bengal with Ludhiana in Punjab, the Western Corridor links Delhi with Mumbai. The traffic on the Eastern Corridor mainly comprises coal for the power plants in the northern region of UP, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, and parts of Rajasthan from the Eastern Coal fields, finished steel, food grains, cement, fertilisers, limer stone from Rajasthan, to steel plants in the east and general goods.link
Showing posts with label Railway Minister Lalu Prasad. Show all posts
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Tuesday 3 February 2009
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