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PM Modi inaugurates 306-km stretch of WDFC through video-conferencing | LIVE

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Image Source : PTI PM Modi to inaugurate 306-km stretch of WDFC in the present day
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 306-km New Rewari-New Madar part of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) through video-conferencing in the present day.

Modi may also flag off the world’s first double-stack long-haul 1.5-km-long container practice hauled by electrical traction from New Ateli-New Kishangarh through the occasion.

The governors and chief ministers of Rajasthan and Haryana, together with railway minister Piyush Goyal, will likely be current on the event.

The New Rewari-New Madar part of the WDFC is located in Haryana (roughly 79 km in Mahendragarh and Rewari districts) and Rajasthan (roughly 227 km in Jaipur, Ajmer, Sikar, Nagaur and Alwar districts). It consists of 9 newly-built DFC stations, of which six are crossing stations — New Dabla, New Bhagega, New Sri Madhopur, New Pachar Malikpur, New Sakun and New Kishangarh — whereas the opposite three at New Rewari, New Ateli and New Phulera are junction stations.

The opening of this stretch will profit varied industries within the Rewari, Manesar, Narnaul, Phulera and Kishangarh areas of Haryana and Rajasthan and likewise allow a greater utilization of the container depot of the CONCOR at Kathuwas. This part may also guarantee a seamless connectivity with the western ports of Kandla, Pipavav, Mundhra and Dahej in Gujarat.

With the inauguration of this part, a seamless connectivity between the WDFC and the EDFC will likely be achieved. Earlier, the 351-km New Bhaupur-New Khurja part of the EDFC was devoted to the nation by the prime minister on December 29.

The wagons on a long-haul double-stack container practice on the WDFC can carry 4 occasions when it comes to container models in comparison with the present site visitors on the Indian Railway tracks, the PMO mentioned.

The DFCCIL will run freight trains on the most pace of 100 km per hour as towards the present most pace of 75 kmph on Indian Railway tracks, whereas the common pace of freight trains may also be elevated from the prevailing 26 kmph on Indian Railway tracks to 70 kmph on DFC.
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