Railways

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed an agreement with the Government of India (GoI) to provide an official development assistance (ODA) loan of Rs 61.7 billion (JPY 103,664 million) as the third tranche for […]

Sojitz Corporation-led consortium comprising Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Gayatri Projects Limited secured the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the Iqbalgarh-Vadodara stretch of the Western DFC project. It is estimated to cost Rs 4.74 […]

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved seven railway projects comprising six railway lines and one rail overbridge (RoB) at an estimated cost of Rs 107.94 billion, on February 17, 2016. These lines are expected […]

The central government has set up National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRC) for the development and operation of the 534 km Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail (HSR) project. This is a JV between the MoR […]

The Maharashtra Forest Department has dereserved 58.15 hectares of forest land for the Western DFC project by issuing a final order on February 29, 2016. Of the total land dereserved, 10.86 hectares belongs to the […]

The Ministry of Railways (MoR) has proposed the development of four additional dedicated freight corridors (DFCs) in order to increase its share in freight movement. The four additional freight corridors are the 2,330 km East-West […]

RITES Limited has shortlisted three companies for the processing of satellite imagery along the proposed alignment of the Hubli-Ankola-Madgoan section of the DFC (southern corridor) project. These are TriCAD Design Consultants Private Limited, Matrix Geo […]

The Digha-Sonepur rail-cum-road overbridge project commenced commercial operations with an empty goods train on January 16, 2016. The Commissioner of Rail Safety granted safety clearance for the project on January 15, 2016. The safety inspection […]

The consortium of L&T Construction and the Sojitz Group has won a contract worth Rs 12.13 billion for the Vadodara-JNPT section (422 km) of the DFC (western corridor) Project on January 22, 2016. The contract […]

The MoR and SNCF (French railway company) signed an agreement on January 25, 2016 for jointly undertaking an implementation study for the Delhi-Chandigarh-Amritsar high speed rail corridor project. A team comprising 30 experts from France […]

Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) is expected to invite bids for the procurement of plant and equipment for maintenance of railway track and electric overhead equipment (OHE) for the dedicated freight corridor […]

The Ministry of Railways (MoR) signed MoUs with the Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala governments to form JV companies. According to the MoU, each JV company will have 51 per cent stake held by […]

On December 30, 2015, the cabinet approved the formation of JV companies with various state governments to mobilise resources for undertaking rail infrastructure projects across the respective states. The JV companies will be formed with […]

The Express Freight consortium commenced work on the 320 km Vaitarna-Vadodara section of the Dedicated Freight Corridor Project (western corridor) on January 5, 2016. The consortium, led by Mitsui and Company Limited, consists of Ircon […]

The preliminary survey for the Chardham Rail Connectivity Project has been completed. The Ministry of Railways (MoR) has now undertaken the traffic survey to assess the project viability. The project involves development of 327.11 km […]

The central government has set up a high-level committee headed by the NITI Aayog to sort out all the bilateral issues related to implementation of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (HSR) Corridor Project, with a […]

The Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) under the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has approved a sum of Rs 33.1 billion as a project loan and Rs 8.28 billion as the policy loan component for the […]