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As recession hits nation, dedicated freight corridor may get operational

Augmenting freight operations through better marketing, cheaper tariff and discount packages has been on the railway agenda

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Conceived by the United Progressive Alliance, the two freight corridors were to be completed in 2016-17, but the deadline was shifted multiple times.

Jyoti Mukul New Delhi
By 2023, the Indian Railways plans to have private passenger trains running on its network at a maximum speed of 160 kilometre an hour (kmph). Equally ambitious is its target to have a bullet train running between Ahmedabad and Mumbai at a maximum speed of 320 kmph by December 2023. The focus of the government-run Railway Board, the apex decision- and policy-making body for the Indian Railways, is clearly on passenger travel — getting in newer operators while giving an air travel feel on railway tracks. In this quest for speed, the bread and butter for the railway system, freight

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