water pollution in tirap district with special reference to churja river
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Ministry of Railways initiated action to establish a Special Purpose Vehicle for
construction, operation and maintenance of the dedicated freight corridors. This led
to the establishment of “Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited
(DFCCIL)”, to undertake planning & development, mobilization of financial resources
and construction, maintenance and operation of the dedicated freight corridors.
DFCCIL was incorporated as a company under the Companies Act 1956 on 30th
October 2006. Mumbai-Delhi and Mumbai-Howrah route have a current capacity
utilization of more than 140%. This has led to the saturation of the Railways system
in terms of line capacity utilizations on these corridors, which are specifically called
the Western and Eastern corridor respectively. Dankuni -Sonnagar-Ludhiana section
has been identified as part of the eastern corridor while from JNPT to Dadri via
Vadodara - Ahmedabad - Palanpur - Phulera - Rewari is called western corridor.
These corridors encompass a double line (except Khurja- Ludhiana section which is
single line at present) electrified traction corridors. The total length of EDFC works
out to 1839 Km whereas that of WDFC is 1483 Km.. The present EIA study confines
to 49.69 km stretch from Khurja to Dadri, which provides connection of EDFC with
WDF. This alignment, Khurja-Dadri is taken under EDFC.