PM Modi To Inaugurate 306 Km Freight Hall Stretch On January 7
PM Modi may even flag off the arena’s first double-stack long-haul 1.5-km-long container teach. (Document)
New Delhi:
Top Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 306-km New Rewari-New Madar phase of the Western Devoted Freight Hall (WDFC) by way of video-conferencing on January 7, a commentary from the Top Minister’s Place of job (PMO) mentioned on Tuesday.
PM Modi may even flag off the arena’s first double-stack long-haul 1.5-km-long container teach hauled through electrical traction from New Ateli-New Kishangarh throughout the development.
The governors and leader ministers of Rajasthan and Haryana, together with Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, can be provide at the instance.
The New Rewari-New Madar phase of the WDFC is positioned in Haryana (roughly 79 km in Mahendragarh and Rewari districts) and Rajasthan (roughly 227 km in Jaipur, Ajmer, Sikar, Nagaur and Alwar districts). It is composed of 9 newly-built DFC stations, of which six are crossing stations — New Dabla, New Bhagega, New Sri Madhopur, New Pachar Malikpur, New Sakun and New Kishangarh — whilst the opposite 3 at New Rewari, New Ateli and New Phulera are junction stations.
The hole of this stretch will receive advantages more than a few industries within the Rewari, Manesar, Narnaul, Phulera and Kishangarh spaces of Haryana and Rajasthan and likewise permit a greater utilization of the container depot of the CONCOR at Kathuwas. This phase may even make certain a unbroken connectivity with the western ports of Kandla, Pipavav, Mundhra and Dahej in Gujarat.
With the inauguration of this phase, a unbroken connectivity between the WDFC and the EDFC can be accomplished. Previous, the 351-km New Bhaupur-New Khurja phase of the EDFC used to be devoted to the country through the high minister on December 29.
The wagons on a long-haul double-stack container teach at the WDFC can lift 4 occasions relating to container gadgets in comparison to the present visitors at the Indian Railway tracks, the PMO mentioned.
The DFCCIL will run freight trains on the most velocity of 100 km consistent with hour as towards the present most velocity of 75 kmph on Indian Railway tracks, while the common velocity of freight trains may also be larger from the prevailing 26 kmph on Indian Railway tracks to 70 kmph on DFC.
