The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has cleared construction of a third railway line between Narayangarh in West Bengal and Bhadrak in Odisha. Finance minister Arun Jaitley said that the new 155-km railway line, which is the third in the area - involving an investment of ₹1,866 crore - will help generate additional capacity to cope with the additional traffic and would be completed by 2023-24. In fact, the busy section between Narayangarh and Bhadrak is mainly used for the movement of coking coal to steel plants and for exporting ore from the areas of Chakradharpur to several ports. The new line will enable faster movement of coal and thereby boost the steel and power plants, and the resultant economy of Odisha and West Bengal. The present utilization (with maintenance block) of the section between Narayangarh and Bhadrak is to the tune of 138% and over and above the heavy freight traffic, the route has to accommodate 47 pairs of coaching trains including high-speed trains like Bhubaneswar Rajdhani, Howrah-Yesvantpur Duronto, Howrah-Puri Duronto, Sealdah-Puri Duronto and the Howrah-Puri Shatabdi Express.
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15 March 2019
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