Coal India to construct 21 additional greenfield and brownfield railway sidings
Coal India (CIL) on Monday said that it is planning to construct 21 additional greenfield and brownfield railway sidings at an estimated investment of Rs 3,370 crore.
The 21 sidings, aimed at increasing the share of coal movement through railway network and bringing down coal movement through road, will be set up across four subsidiaries of the public sector miner and will be commissioned by 2023-24.
CIL has 152 rail sidings which will go up to 173 by 2024. “The dovetailing of existing and new rail sidings with rapid loading system silos of first mile connectivity projects will help improve loading quantity in future when production expands,” said a senior official of the company.
