There was a 60% rise in freight prepare operations from final 12 months with 325 good trains operating day by day on two devoted freight corridors which at the moment are 96.4% full, a senior railway official has mentioned.
Devoted Freight Hall Company of India Restricted’s Managing Director R Ok Jain mentioned that greater than two lakh trains in whole have run for the reason that inception of the venture and immediately greater than 10% of freight on the Railways is dealt with by these two corridors.
The 1,337-km-long Jap Devoted Freight Hall (EDFC) runs from Ludhiana (Punjab) to Sonnagar (West bengal) and the 1506-km-long Western Devoted Freight Hall connects Dadri in Uttar Pradesh with Mumbai in Maharashtra.
“This 2843-km-long engineering marvel, passing by means of 56 districts in seven states of the nation is now 96.4% full. At the moment, we’re operating on a mean of 325 trains per day which is 60% greater than final 12 months,” Jain mentioned, sharing a progress report on the DFCCIL with mediapersons.
“The EDFC is now 100 per cent full and operational with feeder routes to completely different coal mines and thermal energy crops. The WDFC can be 93.2% full with feeder routes serving varied cement crops and the big ports of Mundra, Kandla, Pipavav, and Hazira in Gujarat,” Jain added.
DFCCIL officers say that with the venture’s announcement in April 2005 by then prime minister Manmohan Singh and its dynamic progress in the course of the 10 years of the Modi authorities, it has come a protracted strategy to develop into a recreation changer within the nation’s transport logistics.
They are saying that Indian companies want reasonably priced logistics to maintain their product cost-competitive and rail freight is probably the most cost-effective and environmentally pleasant transportation possibility.
“The Devoted Freight Corridors have been envisaged to make sure dependable, economical and quicker transportation of products,” Jain mentioned.
Speaking concerning the challenges within the completion of the venture, Jain mentioned 11,000 hectares of land was to acquired throughout the seven states. “That is equal to 22,000 soccer grounds. The most important challenges have been in coping with completely different land legal guidelines, native points, regulation and order and many others.”
“The venture has 62 necessary bridges, 535 main bridges, 4,643 minor bridges, 53 rail flyovers on passenger railway tracks, 304 roads over bridges, 557 roads below bridges, and 48 junctions amongst a number of different options,” he mentioned.
Highlighting some great benefits of the 2 corridors Jain mentioned that moreover decongesting passenger tracks by shifting freight trains to DFC tracks and growing the punctuality of passenger trains, the 2 purposeful corridors have lowered logistics prices with quicker trains and lowered transit time of products.
“Augmenting capability by way of particular tracks with increased load-bearing functionality, boosting exports utilizing double-stack container trains and facilitating the expansion of Gatishakti Cargo Terminals together with Multi-Modal Logistic parks, the venture has enhanced the general industrial competitiveness,” Jain mentioned.
“Whereas the devoted freight corridors additionally contribute to employment technology, it has additional boosted key authorities initiatives resembling Make-In-India, Begin-Up India, PLI Schemes and many others. making India a developed nation by 2047,” he added.
The New Rewari Chord Line (1.22 Km) commissioned on July 14, 2024 is saving 36 valuable crew hours per day and decreasing 1.5 hrs of transit time of coal trains, he mentioned.
“The 2 Gatishakti Cargo Terminals have been commissioned at Rewari and Bhaupur whereas three extra have been notified at Daudkhan, Saradhana and Gothangam,” Jain mentioned.
He added, “4 new operating rooms developing at DDU, Khurja, Kanpur and Palanpur have been made which is able to enhance crew effectivity. Equally, electrical upgradation over the New Khurja-New Saharanpur part will accommodate extra electrical trains and new two longer loops deliberate at New Phulera will accommodate mor e trains on the junction.”
Included in 2006 below the Railway Ministry, the DFCCIL is a Particular Function Automobile for the development, operation, and upkeep of the devoted freight corridors.
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