CCEA Green Flags Projects Worth Rs 6,405 Crore To Double Railway Lines

New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by way of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday licensed two multi-tracking tasks around the Indian Railways community, entailing an funding of Rs. 6,405 crore. 

The first mission pertains to the doubling of the 133 km Koderma–Barkakana railway line, which passes thru a significant coal-producing house of Jharkhand. It additionally serves because the shortest and environment friendly rail hyperlink between Patna and Ranchi.

The 2nd mission comes to doubling of the 185 km Ballari–Chikjajur railway line, which traverses thru Ballari and Chitradurga districts of Karnataka and Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh.

The two tasks overlaying seven districts around the states of Jharkhand, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh will build up the prevailing community of Indian Railways by way of about 318 km and are anticipated to generate direct employment for roughly 108 lakh human-days throughout development, the legitimate observation stated.

The licensed multi-tracking mission will support connectivity to roughly 1,408 villages, that have a inhabitants of about 28.19 lakh. The higher railway line capability will considerably support mobility, leading to progressed operational potency and repair reliability for Indian Railways.

These multi-tracking proposals are poised to streamline operations and alleviate congestion. The tasks are consistent with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient of a ‘New India’, which can make other people of the area ‘Atmanirbhar’ by the use of complete construction within the house, which can support their employment/self-employment alternatives, the legitimate observation defined.

The tasks are the results of the PM-Gati Shakti National Master Plan for multi-modal connectivity, which has been made conceivable thru built-in making plans and can supply seamless connectivity for the motion of other people, items, and products and services, the observation stated.

These are very important routes for transportation of commodities comparable to coal, iron ore, completed metal, cement, fertilizers, agricultural commodities, and Petroleum merchandise, and many others. The capability augmentation works will lead to further freight site visitors of magnitude 49 MTPA (Million Tonnes Per Annum).

The Railways, being an atmosphere pleasant and effort environment friendly mode of transportation, will lend a hand each in attaining local weather targets and minimising logistics value of the rustic, cut back oil import (52 crore litres) and decrease CO2 emissions (264 crore kg) which is identical to plantation of 11 crore timber, the observation added.