{"id":86472,"date":"2020-02-21T16:49:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13888"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:19:29","slug":"world-bank-offers-funds-for-last-stretch-of-eastern-dedicated-freight-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/world-bank-offers-funds-for-last-stretch-of-eastern-dedicated-freight-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank offers funds for last stretch of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: World Bank has offered to give financial assistance to the last remaining portion of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) between Bihar\u2019s Sonnagar and West Bengal\u2019s Dankuni<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is part of India\u2019s Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) program<\/li><li>involves the construction of a 1,839km-long freight line extending from Ludhiana in Punjab to Dankuni in West Bengal.<\/li><li><strong>Implementing Agency<\/strong>: Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL)<\/li><li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> to support freight movement on the Eastern Corridor, which starts in West Bengal, and passes through the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Haryana before ending at Punjab<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It involves the construction of six freight corridors traversing the entire country.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Objective: To provide a safe and efficient freight transportation system.<\/li><li>Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Railways<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited:<\/strong> It is a special purpose vehicle established by the Ministry of Indian Railways for the construction, operation and maintenance of the dedicated freight corridors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/vM5qmtl-REgzuyKVxGwfibS463w5w7P9wRmXEhxM7_tyAOV2zPNUCTfDkRM2uxAiqUNjqyfEcmOkk2aeU9SlavWGB--NT6yucIchkaB7esB98Z0ZXk8HMAkDp7CSZ1NGc6gUoKY0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: World Bank has offered to give financial assistance to the last remaining portion of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) between Bihar\u2019s Sonnagar and West Bengal\u2019s Dankuni Facts: Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) It is part of India\u2019s Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) program involves the construction of a 1,839km-long freight line extending from Ludhiana&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/world-bank-offers-funds-for-last-stretch-of-eastern-dedicated-freight-corridor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World Bank offers funds for last stretch of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3127],"tags":[4035],"class_list":["post-86472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-eastern-dedicated-freight-corridor","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704878681},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}