JSPL dispatches 260 mtr rails for freight corridor

Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) has flagged off, what it claimed, India’s longest ever rails measuring 260 metres to the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL). The rails will be used for construction of the eastern corridor of the landmark 350-km dedicated freight railway network in India, the company said in a statement here.

JSPL Chairman Naveen Jindal flagged off the specially manufactured rake (goods train) from the company’s state-of-the-art steel plant at Raigarh—about 250 km from here on Friday.

“It is indeed a proud moment for JSPL to truly exemplify our endeavour, which is in perfect synergy with the ‘Make in India’ initiative,” Jindal said.

They are confident that JSPL’s Raigarh facility would emerge as the hub to supply rails to forthcoming railway corridors in India and world over, he said, adding that JSPL was among the few global steelmakers who would have soon the capabilities to produce special head hardened rails for bullet trains.

The company recently shipped its first mega order to DFCCI. Two rakes laden with 1,880 tonnes of rails of 87-metre length have already been dispatched for construction of the eastern corridor of the DFCCI in August 2015 out of the total order size of 90,175 tonnes of rails.

JSPL received this order for the construction of around 350-km long double track from Khurja to Bhaupur for the eastern corridor of DFCCI.

JSPL had set up its rail manufacturing unit at Raigarh in 2003 to become India’s first private sector steel maker to venture into this category. The state-of-the-art rail manufacturing unit was established in technical collaboration with NKK Japan (now JFE). The rail manufacturing unit has been certified by RITES, a government of India enterprise.