Study on for 4,000 km of new freight corridors: Railways

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ The Indian Railways is carrying out a detailed study on the nearly 4,000 km-long new dedicated freight corridors connecting industrial areas in the eastern and western parts of the country to major ports in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, Railway Board Chairman V.K. Yadav said on Thursday.

The study will be completed by 2021, he said. Addressing a virtual press conference, Yadav said that the proposed DFCs are part of the next big infrastructure projects of the national transporter.

Sharing the details of the new dedicated freight corridors, he said: “The survey work for the four new corridors has started and it will be completed by 2021, while the construction of these new corridors is expected to be completed by 2030.”