Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw during a Cabinet briefing, in New Delhi on Wednesday
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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), on Wednesday, approved over ₹7,000 crore of rail and road projects across Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
While ₹3,399-crore of multi-tracking rail projects will be taken up across MP and Maharashtra, with completion scheduled for 2029-30, the four-lane highway corridor from Badvel to Nellore (in Andhra) has an estimate cost of ₹3,653 crore.
The multi-tracking rail projects cleared include line quadrupling (construction of third and fourth rail lines) in the Ratlam-Nagda corridor (Madhya Pradesh) and fourth-line construction at Wardah–Balharshah (in Maharashtra) corridor.
The two projects will cover 4 districts across these 2 States, and will add 176 km to the railways’ network. The project will enhance connectivity to 784 villages, which have a population of about 19.74 lakh.
According to Ashwini Vaishnaw, Railways Minister, these are essential routes for transportation of commodities such as coal, cement, clinker, gypsum, fly ash, containers, agriculture commodities, and petroleum products etc. Capacity augmentation works will result in additional freight traffic of a magnitude of 18.4 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).
“The railways, being environment friendly and an energy efficient mode of transportation, will help in achieving both climate goals and minimising logistics cost of the country, reduce oil import (20 crore litres) and lower CO2 emissions (99 crore kg),” he said during a media briefing.
The CCEA, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the construction of a four-lane Badvel-Nellore Corridor (108.134 km) at a cost of ₹3,653.10 crore in Andhra Pradesh on NH(67), under the Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Transfer (DBFOT) mode.
The proposed corridor will connect important nodes in the three industrial corridors of AP – Kopparthy Node on the Vishakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor (VCIC), Orvakal Node on Hyderabad-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (HBIC), and Krishnapatnam Node on Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (CBIC).
According to Vaishnaw, this will have a positive impact on the Logistic Performance Index (LPI) of the country.
The Badvel-Nellore Corridor starts from Gopavaram Village on the NH-67 in the YSR Kadapa district and terminates at the Krishnapatnam Port Junction on NH-16 (Chennai-Kolkata) in SPSR Nellore district.
“It will also provide strategic connectivity to the Krishnapatnam Port which has been identified as a priority node under Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor,” he said, adding that the proposed corridor will reduce the distance to Krishanpatnam port by 33.9 km (from 142 km to 108.13 km as compared to the existing Badvel-Nellore road).
Published on May 28, 2025
Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw during a Cabinet briefing, in New Delhi on Wednesday
| Photo Credit:
ANI
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), on Wednesday, approved over ₹7,000 crore of rail and road projects across Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
While ₹3,399-crore of multi-tracking rail projects will be taken up across MP and Maharashtra, with completion scheduled for 2029-30, the four-lane highway corridor from Badvel to Nellore (in Andhra) has an estimate cost of ₹3,653 crore.
The multi-tracking rail projects cleared include line quadrupling (construction of third and fourth rail lines) in the Ratlam-Nagda corridor (Madhya Pradesh) and fourth-line construction at Wardah–Balharshah (in Maharashtra) corridor.
The two projects will cover 4 districts across these 2 States, and will add 176 km to the railways’ network. The project will enhance connectivity to 784 villages, which have a population of about 19.74 lakh.
According to Ashwini Vaishnaw, Railways Minister, these are essential routes for transportation of commodities such as coal, cement, clinker, gypsum, fly ash, containers, agriculture commodities, and petroleum products etc. Capacity augmentation works will result in additional freight traffic of a magnitude of 18.4 million tonnes per annum (mtpa).
“The railways, being environment friendly and an energy efficient mode of transportation, will help in achieving both climate goals and minimising logistics cost of the country, reduce oil import (20 crore litres) and lower CO2 emissions (99 crore kg),” he said during a media briefing.
The CCEA, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the construction of a four-lane Badvel-Nellore Corridor (108.134 km) at a cost of ₹3,653.10 crore in Andhra Pradesh on NH(67), under the Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Transfer (DBFOT) mode.
The proposed corridor will connect important nodes in the three industrial corridors of AP – Kopparthy Node on the Vishakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor (VCIC), Orvakal Node on Hyderabad-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (HBIC), and Krishnapatnam Node on Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (CBIC).
According to Vaishnaw, this will have a positive impact on the Logistic Performance Index (LPI) of the country.
The Badvel-Nellore Corridor starts from Gopavaram Village on the NH-67 in the YSR Kadapa district and terminates at the Krishnapatnam Port Junction on NH-16 (Chennai-Kolkata) in SPSR Nellore district.
“It will also provide strategic connectivity to the Krishnapatnam Port which has been identified as a priority node under Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor,” he said, adding that the proposed corridor will reduce the distance to Krishanpatnam port by 33.9 km (from 142 km to 108.13 km as compared to the existing Badvel-Nellore road).
Published on May 28, 2025
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