Prime Minister of India is set to visit Chennai On May 26. – INSIGHTSIAS

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GS Paper 3

Syllabus: Infrastructure(energy, ports, roads, airports, railways etc)

 

Context:

  • The PM is set to lay the foundation stone for include the Rs 1,400 crore multi-modal logistics park in Chennai, the Rs 5,850 crore 21-km four-lane double-decker elevated road connecting Chennai Port to Maduravoyal (NH-4), and the Rs 14,870 crore Chennai-Bengaluru Expressway project.
  • The Prime Minister would dedicate to the nation four railway projects implemented at a cost of over ₹2,900crore.
  • They are:
  1. 75 km long Madurai Theni (Railway Gauge Conversion Project)
  2. 30km long third railway line between Tambaram-Chengalpattu
  3. 115km long Ennore-Chengalpattu section
  4. 271km long Tiruvallur-Bengaluru section of a natural gas pipeline

 

Indian Railways:

  • It is the world’s fourth largest rail network in the world. Railways in India
  • The Indian railways employ more than 1.3 million people.
  • It transports more than 90% of the coal that provides 50% of the country’s power requirement.
  • 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in the railways infrastructure sector.
  • As per data released by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, for railways and associated sectors, the FDI inflows stood at $1.23 billion (April 2000 – March 2021).

Government initiatives:

  • Rising passenger & freight traffic
  • Increasing urbanization, rising incomes (both rural and urban), growing industrialization across the country along with private sector participation
  • Increasing freight traffic
  • Growing industrialization across the country
  • Dedicated freight corridor(Six high-capacity, high-speed dedicated freight corridors)
  • Diamond Quadrilateral network of high-speed rail
  • Connecting major metros and growth centers of the country

 

Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC):

  • It is a high speed and high capacity railway corridor that is exclusively meant for the transportation of freight, or in other words, goods and commodities.
  • It involves integration of better infrastructure and state of the art technology.
    It consists of two arms:

Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC):

  • Starts at Sahnewal (Ludhiana) in Punjab and ends at Dankuni in West Bengal.
  • The EDFC route has coal mines, thermal power plants and industrial cities.
  • The EDFC route covers Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal
  • It is being funded majorly by the World Bank.
  • The 351-km-long ‘New Bhaupur-New Khurja section’ will decongest the existing Kanpur-Delhi main line and double the speed of freight trains from 25 kmph to 75 kmph.

Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC):

  • It is around 1,500-km WDFC from Dadri in Uttar Pradesh to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai, touching all major ports along the way.
  • It covers Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
  • It is being funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
  • The Connecting Link for Eastern and Western Arm: It is under construction between Dadri and Khurja.

 

MultiModal Logistics Parks (MMLPs)

  • The development of MMLPs at strategic locations is envisaged as a key policy measure to rationalize cost of logistics in India and improve its competitiveness.
  • MMLPs serve five key functions:
  1. Freight aggregation and distribution
  2. Multimodal freight transport, integrated storage and warehousing
  3. Information technology support
  4. Value-added services.

 

Insta Links:

Prelims links:

New railway lines

Dedicated freight corridor

MultiModal Logistics Parks (MMLPs)

Location of different freight corridors on map

National Infrastructure Pipeline

 

Mains Link:

Discuss how the development of railway infrastructure will create jobs and boost the economy with examples.

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