The 1839 Km long Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) Project from Ludhiana in Punjab to Dankuni in West Bengal has been sanctioned and implementation taken up. This Corridor is being developed to augment the rail transport capacity to meet the growing requirement of movement of freight traffic on the route.

The Eastern DFC (excluding Sonnagar-Dankuni Section) is likely to be commissioned by 2019. Civil construction works of Khurja-Kanpur Section (343 km.) of Eastern DFC have commenced and approximately 25% of work has been completed. Works on 122 km. Mughalsarai-Sonnagar Section of Eastern DFC are also progressing well.

A total of 3861 hectare of land out of 5550 hectare required for the Project have been notified for land acquisition under Section 20 F of the Railway Amendment Act 2008.
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