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`Rlys must consider linking southern region too'

Mumbai , Oct. 5

The 1,469-km-long dedicated western freight corridor, linking Jawaharlal Nehru port to Dadri near Delhi, is expected to be completed in five years at a cost of Rs 11,446 crore.

Fit for double stock container train movement, the corridor will be routed through Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Palanpur and Rewari.

Laying the foundation stone for the corridor here on Thursday, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, said the Indian Railways should consider additional freight corridors to link the southern region. "This will then truly link the entire nation in a grid," he said.

The Prime Minister felt that the freight corridors could significantly boost the country's economic development and could make Indian goods more competitive in the global markets by reducing transportation cost.

Length, feeder routes

The total length of the dedicated freight corridor is 11,500 km and is expected to involve an investment of Rs 1,00,000 crore. While the western corridor will have a length of 1,469 km and seven feeder routes, the eastern corridor will have a track length of 1,232 km and 17 feeder routes. Both the western and eastern corridors will be connected between Dadri and Khurja to facilitate transfer from one corridor to the other.

The western corridor will carry container traffic from the western ports to destinations in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh and the eastern corridor will mostly carry coal and steel cargoes. The movement of trains with computerised control system will considerably reduce cost of operations, which is expected to benefit the industry and thermal power plants.

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