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U.P. Govt makes move on Dedicated Freight Corridor
State Monitoring Committee meets to resolve issues of land, other
clearances for DFC
Consultations held on multimodal logistics parks in Kanpur and other
locations under DFC
Lucknow | June 01, 2012
In a significant move to accelerate implementation Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) project,
State monitoring committee for DFC met under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary, Jawed Usmani
here today. Reviewing issue-wise agenda, Chief Secretary directed the officials to ensure timebound clearances and resolution of issues pertaining to land acquisition or requisition in this
connection.
Apart from senior officials of the departments concerned, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation
of India Ltd (DFCCIL) was represented by Director-project planning, Anshuman Sharma. Chief
Secretary said, "The work on DFC should not face any hurdles at any level of State government,
time-bound compliance of actions required for expediting the project should be ensured."
Earlier, Infrastructure & Industrial Development Commissioner, Anil K Gupta held discussions with
Director-operations P. N. Shukla, DFCCIL on identification of locations and development of
multimodal logistics parks (MMLPs), to begin with, in Kanpur and later on along the DFC route in
other industrially and economically suitable towns.
"If Uttar Pradesh leg of eastern dedicated freight corridor passes through or beside industrial
estates of UPSIDC that would certainly help in easily identifying and utilising land for multimodal
logistics hub locations," said IIDC Anil K Gupta. IIDC has issued directions to District Magistrates
and U.P. State Industrial Development Corporation (UPSIDC) to coordinate with DFCC officials to
identify areas belonging to UPSIDC which fall on the alignment of DFC. IIDC assured DFCC officials of
smooth highway and power linkages for the proposed project development.
Anchor project of ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), 1,839 Kms multimodal high
axle-load eastern dedicated freight (rail) corridor (DFC) envisages linking Ludhiana in Punjab to
Dankuni in Paschim Bongo (West Bengal) with around 1000 Kms passing through Uttar Pradesh
from Saharanpur to Chandauli. Eastern DFC, an absolutely new access-controlled rail network is
proposed to be built exclusively to carry freight in containerized compartments as extant rail
networks are saturated. The high-speed trains will run at 100 Kmph with around 15 junctions along
its alignment. These junctions will be connected to existing railway stations and highways. About 1718 Km of alignment of 1499 km long Western Dedicated Freight corridor falls in Gautam Budh
Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. This part will connect the state to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust
(Mumbai).
DFCC Director-operations, P. N. Shukla informed that eastern dedicated freight corridor is expected
to be functional in 2015-16. Elaborating on DFC and logistics hubs, he said that freight was directly
linked to economic growth, especially in the development of capacity building in core sectors like
power houses, fertilizer, food grains, and POL (petroleum, oil, liquid) movement including export
import. MMLPs have been envisaged to be wholesome logistics solution including transport,
warehousing, cold chains, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) supply chains and logistics towns.
"In the long run multimodal logistics parks will become nodes of increased economic activity not
only for industrial goods but for safe and quick transportation, storage and marketing of agriproducts, thus benefitting farmers of this agrarian state," opined DFCC Director, P N Shukla.
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