VC NITI Aayog, Railway Board Chairman inspect NTC working site on Khurja-Dadri section

Dignitaries during inspection of NTC working site on Khurja-Dadri section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor.
Dignitaries during inspection of NTC working site on Khurja-Dadri section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor.

Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 30: The inspection of the New Track Construction (NTC) working site at Wair detour on the Khurja-Dadri section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor was conducted by the Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman and the Railway Board Chairman.
Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman NITI Aayog and Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman Railway Board and accompanied by Anurag Sachan, MD DFCCIL inspected the Wair detour of the Khurja- Dadri section of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor.
The Khurja Dadri section is the connecting link between the Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridors on which Heavy Haul and Long Haul Freight trains can run at a speed of 100 KMPH ensuring seamless and fast logistics movement. DFC is using NTC machines for laying the entire length of track across both the Eastern & Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, for the first time in India. Currently, there are seven NTC machines being deployed along the DFC alignment with four in EDFC and three in WDFC respectively.
After inspecting the track laying working site by the NTC machine which has the capability to lay 1.5 km of track per day, Sh Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman Railway Board appreciated the hard work put in by the DFC for this project of national importance and expressed confidence at the achieving of the deadlines by DFCCIL.
Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman NITI Aayog appreciated the speedy implementation of the Project which is scheduled to be completed in time and said that DFCCIL would act as a crucial multiplier for the Indian Economy. He complimented to the team DFCCIL and Indian Railways.
Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman Railway Board appreciated the hard work put in by the DFC collective, contractors for this project of national importance and expressed confidence at the achieving of the deadline by DFCCIL.

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