Construction giants Sojitz, L&T to lay DFC track

A consortium of a Japanese and an India company has been entrusted with the Rs 6700 crore construction work of 625-km-long rail track as part of the part of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC).
The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation (DFCC) has given the contract for construction work of rail track from Rewari in Haryana to Iqbalgarh in Rajasthan as part of the 1,483-km-long Western DFC to Sojitz and L&T consortium, a Railway Ministry official said.
The Western DFC is coming up between Dadri (near Delhi) and Jawaharlal Nehru Port (near Mumbai).
This is the second mega contract of DFC, the first one having awarded in January, for construction of a 343-km double line track between Kanpur and Khurja on Eastern DFC.

With the finalisation of this contract, DFCC has awarded contracts for about 1000 km of double line track on the DFC project. The completion of DFC project is expected to give much needed fillip to the economy.
The Rewari-Iqbalgarh route will be completed within a period 208 weeks (4 years) from August 30, the date of commencement.
The contract provides for construction of double line railway track with 25 ton axle load capable of upgrading to 32.5 ton axle load with double stack container operation.
For the first time in India, technically superior Head Hardened Rails to be imported from Japan are being used for this work, which has a much better service life than the rails being currently used on railways, said the official.