{"id":17304,"date":"2021-02-04T04:21:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=17304"},"modified":"2021-02-04T04:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:51:48","slug":"dedicated-freight-corridors-of-indian-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=17304","title":{"rendered":"Dedicated Freight Corridors of Indian Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ministry of Railways<\/div>\n
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Dedicated Freight Corridors of Indian Railways
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The following two (2) sections of DFC have been commissioned and dedicated to the nation by Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister of India:-<\/p>\n

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  1. Bhaupur to Khurja (351 km) of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) on 29.01.2020.<\/li>\n
  2. Rewari to Madar (306 km) of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) on 07.01.2021.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Details of freight and freight revenue for the last three years are as under:<\/p>\n

    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    Year<\/strong><\/td>\nFreight<\/strong><\/p>\n

    (in Million Tonnes)<\/strong><\/td>\n

    		Freight Revenue<\/strong><\/p>\n

    (in Crores)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

    2017-18<\/td>\n1159.55<\/td>\nRs. 1,17,055.40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2018-19<\/td>\n1221.48<\/td>\nRs. 1,27,432.72<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    2019-20<\/td>\n1208.41<\/td>\nRs. 1,13,487.89<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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    50% subsidy is being given in transportation of fruits and vegetable by Kisan Rail through a scheme administered by Ministry of Food Processing Industries.<\/p>\n

    In order to attract more freight business, Railways have taken a number of tariff and non-tariff measures. These, include:-<\/p>\n

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    1. Setting up of Business development units to inter alia actively pursue and attract freight business for rail.<\/li>\n
    2. Withdrawal of 15% Busy season surcharge on railway freight for all commodities except iron ore and coal.<\/li>\n
    3. Concession on long lead traffic of 15 to 20% on Coal, Iron-ore and iron & steel.<\/li>\n
    4. Concession on short lead traffic of 10 to 50% for commodities (except Coal and iron-ore)<\/li>\n
    5. 5% discount on loaded Containers & 25% on empty Containers and waiver of stabling charges on Container rakes during COVID till 31st Oct, 2020.<\/li>\n
    6. Specific discounts on commodities such as fly ash.<\/li>\n
    7. Rationalisation of classification of industrial salt.<\/li>\n
    8. Making existing schemes like traditional empty flow directions, wagon investment schemes, PFT, Siding Policy simplified and made more customer friendly.<\/li>\n
    9. Debit\/Credit scheme for Demurrage introduced for sidings.<\/li>\n
    10. Launching of Freight Business Development Portal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      This information was given by the Minister of Railways, Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Shri Piyush Goyal in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Ministry of Railways Dedicated Freight Corridors of Indian Railways The following two (2) sections of DFC have been commissioned and dedicated to the nation by Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister of India:- Bhaupur to Khurja (351 km) of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) on 29.01.2020. Rewari to Madar (306 km) of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17305,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17304\/revisions\/17305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}