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PLANNING DIRECTORATE RAILWAY BOARD AUGUST 2007 Preface Bhatinda and Panvel- Indian Railways have recorded an JNPT. unprecedented incremental growth in freight traffic of 126 million tonnes in (iv) Delhi-Guwahati via the last two years and have expectedly Moradabad –Sitapur- set an ambitious target of achieving a Bhurwal-Gonda- loading of 1100 million tonnes in the Gorakhpur-Chhapra- terminal year of the XI plan. The Barauni-Katihar. momentum must be sustained if Indian Railways has to meet the transport (v) Delhi-Chennai via Jhansi- requirements of a booming economy Bhopal-Itarsi-Nagpur- like ours. However, IR faces severe Ballarshah. capacity constraints on all its busy routes. The danger signals have been (vi) Howrah-Chennai along recognized and as far back as 2005-06, with alternative route via an exercise was undertaken to identify Jharsuguda-Sambalpur- such high density routes where Titlagarh-Vizianagram capacity augmentation would need to including 3rd line between be undertaken on priority. The following Vizianagram and routes were identified: Kotavalasa and 4th line between Kotavalasa and (i) Delhi-Howrah along with Simhachalam North. the alternative “B” route on Northern Railway and (vii) Mumbai-Chennai along its extension towards with link route Guntakal-Hospet- Shakurbasti-Bhatinda- Hubli-Vasco(iron ore circuit). Suratgarh and Andal- Sainthia for the coal 2. The aforesaid routes accounted routes. for about 25% of IR’s total route kilometers and 70% of the total (ii) Mumbai-Howrah along freight GMT carried by it. The with the link route of above mentioned 7 identified Bilaspur-Anuppur-Katni- routes included all the 6 routes Bina-Kota and Jalgaon- of Golden Quadrilateral and its Surat. Diagonals, high- density feeder/alternative routes associated with them and, (iii) Delhi-Mumbai via Kota- additionally, the Delhi-Guwahati Ratlam including trunk route. alternative route of Delhi- Rewari-Phulera-Ajmer- 3. Subsequently, it was brought out Chittorgarh and that capacity augmentation on Gandhidham-Palanpur- the following links/feeder routes Bhildi-Samdari-Jodhpur- would also be necessary in the context of serving major, high- density freight traffic streams on end-to-end basis, facilitating Coal high-speed passenger train operations on existing routes 6. More than 70% of the proven and improving rail-share in the coal reserves are concentrated freight business segment. in Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Orissa, served by the (i) Bhopal-Ujjain-Nagda Karanpura, Korba, Ib Valley and (Mumbai-Howrah the Talcher fields respectively. route) The proposed Delhi-Howrah (ii) Katni- dedicated freight corridor would Singrauli(Mumbai- address issues concerning the Howrah route) evacuation of coal from the (iii) Guntakal-Vijayawada Karanpura coalfields. Korba (Mumbai-Chennai) would be feeding demand (iv) Shakurbasti- centers in the States of Ambala(Delhi-Howrah Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, route) Maharashtra, Gujarat, (v) Patratu-Garhwa Road- Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana and Sonnagar(Delhi- Punjab and would, therefore, Howrah route) require strengthening of the (vi) Ajmer-Ahmedabad- associated stretches of the Vadodara via Howrah-Mumbai and the Delhi- Palanpur (Mumbai- Mumbai via Bhopal-Jhansi trunk Delhi route) routes. Similarly, coal traffic from IB Valley and Talcher (for 4. The integrated routes account serving demand centers locally for about 28% of the total IR in the States of Orissa and route kilometers and 76% of the Chattisgarh and distantly in total freight GMT (71% of the Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and total passenger plus freight Tamil Nadu) would mandate GMT). capacity augmentation on the associated stretches of the 5. For formulating the capacity Howrah-Chennai trunk route as enhancement strategy and well as alternative/link routes like prioritizing the works on Jharsuguda-Titlagarh- corridors other than Delhi- Vizianagram, Talcher-Cuttack- Howrah and Delhi-Mumbai the Paradeep, etc. following concerns regarding growth patterns of major 7. The Planning Commission has commodities like coal and steel projected a demand – supply have also been addressed. gap of about 95 million tones of Some of the links proposed for coal by the terminal year of the strengthening in the current 11th Plan. If this gap is to be exercise will also enhance port fully or partially met through connectivity. imports, rail connectivity to gateway ports like Haldia (for fluxes from Ahiwara, Satna and serving demand centres in West Jaisalmer areas could entail the Bengal and Jharkhand), strengthening of routes such as Paradeep (for Orissa, West Kota-Ruthiyai-Bina. In case of Bengal and Jharkhand), imported fluxes, the connectivity Visakhapatnam(for Andhra to Haldia and Paradeep ports, as Pradesh, Orissa, Chattisgarh), in the case of imported coal, Ennore (for Tamil Nadu, would need attention. Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh) and ports on the Gujarat coast 10. In case of Vizag Steel, its (for Gujarat, Maharashtra, and linkage with the Bailladila iron the hinterland of Rajasthan, ore mines through the K-K line Delhi, Western Up, Haryana and would need strengthening. Punjab) would need Similarly, the issues of capacity strengthening. on the Guntakal-Hospet-Goa route assume criticality in the Steel context of (a) JSW/Tornagallu, and (b) evacuation of iron ore 8. Faced with buoyant demand, the from Bellary-Hospet region for steel industry has impressive export in case of sustained plans for expansion of demand beyond 2006-07. In production capacity both at fact, the linkages of this region existing plant locations as well would require strengthening with as through the setting up of new the ports of New Mangalore, plants. This entails a priority for Chennai/Ennore/Krishnapatnam the strengthening of rail linkages as well as between the raw material Kakinada/Visakhapatnam also. (primarily iron ore and fluxes) sources and the steel plants. 11. Finally, in case of proposals or Iron ore reserves are new steel plants in Daitari area predominantly concentrated in fructify, the extent and modality Bailladila, Dongaposi and of capacity being created on the Bellary-Hospet areas. new Daitari-Banspani and Haridaspur-Paradeep rail lines 9. In case of steel plants such as would gain significance. Bhilai, Rourkela, Bokaro and Tata Steel, the strengthening of Containers Howrah-Mumbai trunk route, including cross-links like 12. Substantial growth in EXIM Bandamunda-Kiriburu, container traffic is anticipated at Bandamunda-Hatia-Bokarao, the Nava Sheva(JNPT) and the Dongaposi-Rajkharasawan etc Gujarat Ports. Except for that and the new line between which is going to originate/be Dallirajhara-Jagdalpur assume consumed in the vicinity of these special significance. For these ports, the lion’s share of the steel plants, the traffic flow of balance traffic will call into question the adequacy of rail (iv) On the Delhi-Guwahati linkages with the northern trunk route, augmenting capacity hinterland. on saturated sections like Sitapur-Bhurwal, Bhatni- 13. Based on the aforesaid view of Chhapra, Barauni-Kantihar- major growth areas, the Kumedpur-Fakragram, etc. following prioritization of routes for systemic capacity (v) On the Howrah-Chennai augmentation has been trunk route, creation of requisite conceived. capacity on Barang-Khurda Road-Palasa-Vizianagram (i) On the Mumbai-Howrah sections and its linkage with the trunk route, capacity Mumbai-Howrah route via augmentation especially on Jharsuguda-Titlagarh- Tatanagar-Jharsuguda-Nagpur- Vizianagaram, Sambalpur- Jalgaon section and on its cross- Talcher-Cuttack-Paradeep, etc. links including Jalgaon-Surat, Bondamunda-Kiriburu, Bandamunda-Hatia-Bokara, The current exercise viz., “THE Dongaposi-Rajkharaswan, HDN BLUE PRINT” seeks to Bilaspur-Anuppur-Katni, Katni- identify critical bottlenecks and Singrauli. ways to redress the same. The investments suggested would (ii) On the Mumbai-Chennai yield consistent benefits towards trunk route, augmentataion of achieving the targets for XI plan capacity especially on Wadi- and beyond. Guntakal-Chennai sections, its critical cross-link viz. Vijayawada-Guntakal-Hospet- Hubli-Vasco and the linkage of Bellary-Hospet area with New Mangalore port via Rayadurg- Chitradurg(new line)-Chikjajur- Arsikere. (iii) On the Delhi-Chennai trunk route, augmentation of capacity on saturated sections like Jhansi-Bina-Bhopal and Nagpur-Wardha-Balharsha- Kazipet and its linkage with the Mumbai-Delhi(via Kota) trunk route via Bhopal-Ujjain-Nagda and Bina-Ruthiyai-Kota. /Ey W'E ^ E KEdEd^ & d WZ& ^ ,E ' < D , ,E ' , D ,E Z ^ ,E W ^ ,E , D D Z s : E ,E Z < ,E ^ : ,E D D Z s < Z ,E Z ,E ' W ^ ,E W : Z :EWd ,E ' s Z ' < ,E D Z s W> E'W WY 'hhZ ,E , D Z ,E : ^ d s ,E D D Z ,E ' , , > s / D >Z^^ // ^ W Executive Summary MR vide his note – Planning There could be no doubt that handling 2007/PL/25/1 dated 8-05-2007, had the projected traffic volume of 1100 directed the Board to finalize a blueprint million tons, by the terminal year of 2011- for throughput enhancement and 12, would strain the already over- capacity augmentation works on HDN. stretched carrying capacity. Benefits of While directing the above, MR also major initiatives for capacity expansions, mandated that all these works including like DFC, would be available only freight loading terminal works on HDN towards the later part of the plan. Hence are sanctioned either in the it is absolutely mandatory that necessary supplementary budgets or latest by the throughput enhancement works be main budget for 2008-09. identified in an integrated manner using a route-wise approach, rather than a piece- Background : meal approach, as such an integrated approach would yield maximum benefits. The XI plan document of the Hence the need for a blueprint, which Indian Railways has projected freight would form a fountainhead for all future, traffic of 1100 Million tons in the terminal works on the identified HDN routes. The year 2011-12. The commodity-wise traffic objective of the blueprint is to identify projections for the terminal year of XI such works, which would not only give Plan i.e. 2011-12 and the corresponding the benefits during the years of the XI actuals for the terminal year of X Plan i.e.