Image Source : GOOGLE/REPRESENTATIONAL Dedicated Freight Corridor: PM Modi to inaugurate New Bhaupur-New Khurja part of EDFC at this time
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the New Bhaupur-New Khurja part of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor on Tuesday through video conferencing. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) stated he will even inaugurate the EDFC’s operation management centre at Prayagraj in the course of the occasion.
The 351-km New Bhaupur-New Khurja part of the EDFC is located in Uttar Pradesh and has been constructed at a price of Rs 5,750 crore, it stated.
The part will open new vistas of alternative for native industries resembling aluminium business in Pukhrayan area of Kanpur Dehat, dairy sector of Auraiya, textile manufacturing and block printing of Etawah, glassware business of Firozabad, pottery merchandise of Khurja, asafoetida or ”hing’ manufacturing of Hathras, and locks and {hardware} of Aligarh district, it added.
The part will even decongest the prevailing Kanpur-Delhi mainline and can allow the Indian Railways to run quicker trains.
Noting {that a} state-of-the-art Operation Control Centre at Prayagraj will act because the command centre for the complete route size of the EDFC, the PMO stated this is without doubt one of the largest buildings of its sort globally with fashionable interiors, ergonomic design and best-in-class acoustics.
The constructing is environment-friendly with a inexperienced constructing score of GRIHA4 and is constructed as per norms of the ”Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan”, it stated.
The EDFC (1,856 kms) begins from Sahnewal close to Ludhiana in Punjab and can cross by means of the states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand to terminate at Dankuni in West Bengal.
It is being constructed by the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL), that has been arrange as a particular objective car to construct and function devoted freight corridors.
The DFCCIL can also be developing the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (1,504 route km) that connects Dadri in Uttar Pradesh to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai and can traverse by means of the states of Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, it stated.
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