The Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the 121-kilometer Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor on Tuesday, which will connect Palwal and Sonipat and decongest the national capital region.
The project will provide rail connectivity to all routes originating from Delhi and passing through Haryana, bypassing the national capital. It will make train travel faster from Gurugram and the industrial regions of Haryana, including Manesar, Sohna, Farukhnagar, Kharkhauda and Sonipat.
The project will be implemented by Haryana Rail Infrastructure Development Corp. Ltd., a joint venture between the Ministry of Railways and the Haryana government, and is expected to be completed in five years at an estimated cost of ₹5,617 million rupees.
“This railway line will start in Palwal and end at Harsana Kalan station (in the Delhi-Ambala section). This will give en-route connectivity to Patli Station (on the Delhi-Rewari Line), Sultanpur Station (on the Garhi Harsaru-Farukhnagar Line) and Asaudha Station (on the Delhi Rohtak Line), “the government said.
It will help develop multimodal logistics hubs in Haryana and connect underserved areas of the state. “It will provide seamless high-speed connectivity from this region to the dedicated freight corridor network, reducing cost and transportation time for EXIM (export-import) traffic from NCR to Indian ports, thereby that exports of goods are more competitive, “he added. Around 20,000 passengers will travel on this line daily and 50 million tons of goods will be transported each year.
The way the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal highway is helping to decongest Delhi with road traffic bypassing the national capital, the Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor project will reduce congestion on Delhi’s rail network, said an expert in infrastructure, which seeks anonymity. “It will also open up the option for passenger trains in underserved regions of Haryana,” he added.
The Union cabinet also gave its go-ahead for a new All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Darbhanga in Bihar.
.
