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    30 Dec 2020 4 min read

    Tags: GS Paper - 3 Growth & Development Government Policies & Interventions

    Why in News
    Recently, the Prime Minister of India has inaugurated a 351-km section of the Eastern
    Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) and an Operation Control Centre (OCC) between Khurja
    and Bhaupur in Uttar Pradesh.

    EDFC is a 1,839-km project billed as the largest rail infrastructure being built in
    independent India and has been in the making since 2006.

    Key Points
    Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC):

    It is a high speed and high capacity railway corridor that is exclusively meant for
    the transportation of freight, or in other words, goods and commodities.

    DFC involves the seamless integration of better infrastructure and state of the art
    technology.

    DFC consists of two arms:

    Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC):

    It starts at Sahnewal (Ludhiana) in Punjab and ends at Dankuni in West Bengal.

    The EDFC route has coal mines, thermal power plants and industrial cities.
    Feeder routes are also being made for these.

    The EDFC route covers Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and
    West Bengal

    The World Bank is funding a majority of the EDFC.

    The 351-km-long ‘New Bhaupur-New Khurja section’ will decongest the


    existing Kanpur-Delhi main line and double the speed of freight trains from 25
    kmph to 75 kmph.

    Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC):

    The other arm is the around 1,500-km WDFC from Dadri in Uttar Pradesh to
    Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai, touching all major ports along the way.

    The WDFC covers Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.

    It is being funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

    Connecting Link for Eastern and Western Arm: It is under construction between
    Dadri and Khurja.

    The industrial corridor of Delhi-Mumbai and Amritsar-Kolkata are also being


    developed around both these DFCs.

    Signibcance:

    Increased Capacity:

    The DFC shall reform the transportation sector and will create more capacity on
    trunk routes of Indian Railways as goods trains shall be able to run freely on
    DFC without any restrictions imposed by movement of passenger trains.

    Decongestion:

    Around 70% of the freight trains currently running on the Indian Railway network
    are slated to shift to the freight corridors, leaving the paths open for more
    passenger trains.

    Business Generation:

    Tracks on DFC are designed to carry heavier loads than most of Indian Railways.
    DFC will get track access charge from the parent Indian Railways, and also
    generate its own freight business.

    Punctuality:

    The new section means on the Indian Railway main line, more passenger trains
    can be pumped in and those trains can, in turn, achieve better punctuality.

    Benebts:

    Logistics costs will be reduced.

    Higher energy efciency.

    Faster movement of goods.

    It is environmentally friendly.

    It will provide ease of doing business.

    Helps in generating more employment.

    Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd.

    DFCCIL under the Ministry of Railways is a special purpose vehicle tasked


    with planning and completion of 3,306 kms of DFCs.

    It is headquartered in New Delhi and is a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU).

    It engages in the planning and development, deployment of monetary


    resources, building, upkeep, and the operation of the DFCs.

    Source:IE

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