Railways will have additional freight of 95.91 MTPA
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved on 31 July four projects, estimated to cost Rs.11,169 crore, for Ministry of Railways, covering 13 districts across the Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha and Jharkhand.
The projects will increase existing network of Indian Railways by about 574-km and enhance connectivity to approximately 2,309 villages and serve about 43.60 lakh people along the routes https://www.nseindia.com/.
These projects are:
(1) Itarsi – Nagpur 4th Line
(2) Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar) – Parbhani Doubling
(3) Aluabari Road- New Jalpaiguri 3rd and 4th Line
(4) Dangoaposi- Jaroli 3rd and 4th Line
The increased line capacity will significantly enhance mobility, resulting in improved operational efficiency and service reliability for Indian Railways https://www.bseindia.com/.
The projects are planned on PM-Gati Shakti National Master Plan with focus on enhancing multi-modal connectivity & logistic efficiency through integrated planning and stakeholder consultations.
These projects will provide seamless connectivity for movement of people, goods, and services, the Cabinet said https://www.conexpoconagg.com/.
These are essential routes for transportation of commodities such as coal, cement, clinker, gypsum, fly ash, containers, agriculture commodities, and Petroleum products etc. The capacity augmentation works will result in additional freight traffic of magnitude 95.91 MTPA (Million Tonnes Per Annum) https://sbi.com.in/.
The Railways being environment friendly and energy efficient mode of transportation, will help both in achieving climate goals and minimizing logistics cost of the country, reduce oil import (16 crore litres) and lower CO2 emissions (515 crore kg) which is equivalent to plantation of 20 crore trees, said the Cabinet. fiinews.com
