Govt completes Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor, ops begin Nov 1

One of the key infrastructure projects which received a push from Prime Minister Narendra Modi — the 1,337-kilometre (km) Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) from Punjab to Bihar — has achieved completion ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The project is now ready for commissioning, and operations on the full corridor are likely to begin on November 1, according to Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCC) Managing Director R K Jain.

“The first section of EDFC was inaugurated in December 2020. Three years later, we have completed the entire corridor,” Jain said at a press conference. “Thermal power plants in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, and partly Rajasthan will benefit from the corridor as it will cater largely to coal traffic.”