Foundation for centre piece of infrastructure project
Speedier movement of goods and increase in Railways' share of non-bulk freight traffic are envisaged when the foundation stone is laid for the Rs 66,000 crore Multi-Modal High Axle Freight Corridor project, a centre piece of India's infrastructure...
NEW DELHI: Speedier movement of goods and increase in Railways' share of non-bulk freight traffic are envisaged when the foundation stone is laid for the Rs 66,000 crore Multi-Modal High Axle Freight Corridor project, a centre piece of India's infrastructure development.
"Prime minister Singh would be laying the foundation stone for the first phase (Eastern Corridor) of the project at Ludhiana on September 27", railway minister Lalu Prasad, who along with his two deputies and Entire Railway Board, would be present there on the occasion, has said.
The Eastern Corridor, known as Delhi-Kolkata Corridor, would be linking Ludhiana with Kolkata via Ambala (Haryana), Saharanpur, Meerut, Dadri (near Delhi), Tundla, Kanpur, Allahabad, Mughal Sarai (all U.P.) and Sone Nagar (Bihar), Gomoh (Jharkhand) and Asansol (West Bengal).
When completed, the entire project, known as "Railways Freight Corporation of India Ltd", would be connecting the four Metros--Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai as also their diagonals.
Prime minister is also likely to lay the foundation stone for the Western Corridor on fifth October, 2006, linking Delhi-Mumbai via Phullar, Ajmer, Marwar, Ahmedabad, Surat.
Exclusive Freight Corridor alongwith accelerated programme of containerisation, would not only increase speed of goods trains but also contribute towards increasing the share of Railways in non-bulk goods traffic and create capacities to meet the expected annual demand, Railway ministry sources said.
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