Rlys completes stretch to halve coal logistics time as power demand rises
The Ministry of Railways has completed a crucial section of the eastern dedicated freight corridor (DFC) from Uttar Pradesh’s Ahraura to Mughalsarai, which is slated to make transportation of thermal coal twice as quick, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCC) Managing Director R K Jain said on Thursday.
“Earlier, the eastern route had been completed only in patches, which used to entail switching of tracks from DFCs to railway tracks,” Jain said at a press conference here.
“Now, transit for coal from coal fields of eastern India to power plants of northern India will be entirely on the DFC route from Sonnagar (Bihar) to Dadri,” he said.
