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Dedicated Freight Corridor: 800-km stretch of dedicated
freight corridor to be operational by December end
The railways already opened the 190-km Ateli (Haryana)-Phulera (Rajasthan) section of the Western DFC
earlier this year on August 15.
Status of DFC Projects
• 190 km stretch between Ateli
(Haryana)
and
Phulera
(Rajasthan) on Western DFC is
already opened.
• 200 km stretch between
Khurja-Bhadan on Eastern DFC
is scheduled to open in
November end.
• 300 km stretch between
Rewari (Haryana) and Madar
(Rajasthan) on Western DFC
will
be
completed
by
December end.
• 143 km stretch between
Bhadan-Bhaupur
will
be
completed by January 2019.
A
lmost 800 km of the
Dedicated Freight Corridor
(DFC) is all set to open by
the end of December. The
railways is all set to open the 200 km
Khurja-Bhadan section of the
Eastern DFC, both in Uttar Pradesh,
by the end of November, while the
300-km stretch of the Western DFC
between Rewari (Haryana)-Madar
(Rajasthan) would be completed by
the end of December.
The railways opened the 190-km
Ateli (Haryana)-Phulera (Rajasthan)
section of the Western DFC earlier
this year on August 15. The 190-km
section of the Ateli-Phulera on the
Western DFC has 10 viaducts and
major bridges, 127 minor bridges, one
railway overbridge, 118 road under-
bridges and six stations.
According to sources, the 143-km
section of Bhadan-Bhaupur, both in
Uttar Pradesh on the Eastern DFC,
would be completed by January 2019
and the 128-km section of Madar-
Marwar, both in Rajasthan on the
Western
DFC,
would
be
commissioned by February 2019.
The Bhaupur-Mughalsarai section
of the Eastern DFC would be
completed by August 2019 and the
Sonenagar
(Bihar)-Mughalsarai
(Uttar Pradesh) section of the same
stretch would be completed by
October 2019.
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According to Railway officials the work
status on the respective stretches of the
DFC was discussed during a review
meeting. The official said that railways
is optimistic that the entire DFC would
be fully electrified by the time of its
commissioning in March 2020.
The Rs 81,459-crore project had
obtained the Union Cabinet’s green
signal way back in 2006 and has since
missed several completion deadlines due
to various reasons, including procedural
wrangles, land acquisition, environment
clearances and other related issues.
Passing through nine states and 60
districts, the project will have 48
stations and junctions along the Western
DFC and 58 on the Eastern DFC.
While the Western DFC will cover
1,504 km from Jawaharlal Nehru Port
Trust near Navi Mumbai to Dadri in
Uttar Pradesh, traversing through
Vadodara – Ahmedabad – Palanpur -
Phulera- Rewari, the Eastern DFC
covers 1,856 km from Ludhiana in
Punjab to Dankuni, near Kolkata in
West Bengal, and will traverse the states
of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and
Jharkhand.
The DFC, once completed, is
expected to complement the future of
the Indian economy with an increased
number of freight trains in eastern and
western sectors of the country.
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An 800-km stretch of
Dedicated Freight
Corridor is set to be
opened by December-end,
covering 9 States, 60
Districts and 48 Stations
along its grid, providing
a massive boost to trade
& commerce by
facilitating the smooth
transit of goods &
freight.
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Piyush Goyal
Minister of Railways & Coal,
Govt. of India
Urban Transport Infrastructure | November 2018