East-West Dedicated Freight Corridor

East-West Dedicated Freight Corridor
Overview
Type Freight rail
Status Announced in Budget 2016-17[1]
Locale West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh ,Gujarat ,Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, India
Termini Kolkata, West Bengal
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Operation
Owner Indian Railways
Operator(s) Indian Railways
Technical
Line length 2,000 km (1,200 mi)
Track gauge 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) Indian broad gauge

East-WestDedicated Freight Corridor or East-West DFC is a freight specific railway under proposed in eastern to Western India by Indian Railways. The railway will run between Kolkata in West Bengal and Mumbai in Maharashtra.[2] It was announced by Mr. Suresh Prabhu, Indian Railway Minister while presenting the Railway Budget of India 2016-17.[3] The government has indicated that they are likely to use a foreign direct investment for funding the project. The project would be undertaken through PPP (Public Private Partnerships) model.[4]

Notably, freight train with speed of maximum 100 km per hour will pass through Chhattisgarh in the East-West Corridor (Kolkata-Mumbai).[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Questions : Lok Sabha". 164.100.47.194.
  2. ↑ "Progress in Dedicated Freight Corridor". pib.nic.in. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  3. ↑ "Rail Budget 2016: Railways to develop three dedicated freight corridors". www.businesstoday.in. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  4. ↑ "Rail Budget 2016: Govt plans 3 more freight corridors through PPP". The Financial Express. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
  5. ↑ "Chhattisgarh East West Rail Corridor may complete by 2020". The Pioneer. 22 April 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
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