NEW DELHI: The government has decided to take up the development of the Sonnagar (Bihar) and New Andal (West Bengal) stretch of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) in the first phase rather than laying the rail corridor up to Dankuni.
Sources in the DFCCIL, which is implementing the project, said they have about 95% of land available with them for the 374 km stretch between Sonnagar and New Andal and hence it can be bid out quickly. For the remaining stretch, they have hardly 55% land under their possession.
Since the beginning of the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFCC) project, the government decided to implement these two stretches up to Dankuni on public private partnership (PPP) mode.
