PTI reported that work on the 1,805 kilometer long Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor project would start next week when Ms Sonia Gandhi Congress President inaugurates it in Bihar's Rohtas district.Ms Gandhi along with Mr Lalu Prasad Railway Minister will flag off the work on the project on February 10th 2009.Over the last 2 to 3 years rail freight traffic has grown by 8% to 11% and is projected to touch 1100 million tonne by the end of the 11th Five Year Plan. As per report, the INR 30,000 crore Dedicated Freigh Corridor 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, fertilizers, limer stone from Rajasthan, to steel plants in the east and general goods.(Sourced from Press Trust of India)
0 comments:
Post a Comment