In December 2020, Indian Railways authorities earned Rs11788.11 crores through freight loading
Indian Railways freight loading in December 2020 registered an 8.56 per cent growth as compared to figures recorded in the same month of 2019. According to a statement released by the Railway Ministry, Indian Railways freight loading was 118.13 million tonnes last month, which is 8.54 per cent higher as compared to 108.84 million tonnes loaded in 2019 for the same month. Indian Railways authorities earned Rs 11788.11 crores from the freight loading which is also Rs. 757.74 crores, almost 6.87 per cent higher as compared to earnings in the same month of 2019, which was reported at Rs. 11030.37 crore.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the commercial operation of goods trains on Rewari (in Haryana) and Madar (near Ajmer) section of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) on Thursday. Last week, PM inaugurated the first 351-km of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor in Uttar Pradesh.
According to officials, the new section comprises 79 km in Mahendragarh and Rewari districts of Haryana and approximately 227 km in Rajasthan. There are nine newly built dedicated freight corridor stations in this section. The corridor is slated to be used for double-stack container operation.
These wagons on a long-haul double-stack container train on the western corridor can carry four times in terms of container units compared to the current traffic on Indian Railways.
Neera Chandhoke
Political Scientist
WHILE flagging off the first train run on the 351-km New Delhi-New Khurja section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor, PM Narendra Modi demanded that political parties should put development above politics. The turn of phrase development above politics is significant. In 1994, development had been typed as the quintessential ‘anti-politics machine’ by noted anthropologist James Ferguson. Leaders across the postcolonial world continue to flag the political vocabulary of development as value-free and apolitical, as a binary opposite to politics as contestation over power.
Politics is not only about the accumulation of power by elites. Politics is about the way people, inexorably stripped of the capacity to make their own lives, speak back to power. What we call the political is contested, challenged, mediated, modified, curtailed and expanded. It is a battlefield of disputed ideas, beliefs, worldviews, perspectives, ideologies and ev
The Railways’ dedicated freight corridors: Thrice as fast, twice the load
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The new Eastern and Western freight corridors are critical for India, which still carries 57 per cent of its freight using the more expensive road transport
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UPDATED: December 31, 2020 19:53 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the New Bhaupur - New Khurja section of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) on December 29, via video conferencing (ANI)
On December 29, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the New Bhaupur-New Khurja section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) in Uttar Pradesh a 351-km section, built at a cost of Rs 5,750 crore. The full stretch of the Eastern DFC will run from Ludhiana to Kolkata, covering a total of 1,800 km, and is expected to be operational by next year.
PM Modi emphasises on the importance of connectivity and infrastructure development for Atmanirbhar Bharat PMO India Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that infrastructure is the biggest source of any nation s strength. He said as India is moving fast towards the path of becoming a big economic power, the best connectivity is the priority of the country. Emphasising on the importance of connectivity and infrastructure development for Atma Nirbhar Bharat, Mr Modi said his Government is working on every aspect of modern connectivity for the last six years with this in mind. The Prime Minister was speaking after dedicating to the nation the New Bhaupur- New Khurja section and the Operation Control Centre of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) in Uttar Pradesh yesterday.