Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India

Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India

Type	Public Sector Unit
Founded	2006
Headquarters	New Delhi
Key people	Mr.V.K. Kaul,MD
Website	DFCCIL

The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) is a corporation run by the Government of India to undertake planning & development, mobilisation of financial resources and construction, maintenance and operation of the Dedicated Freight Corridors. DFCC has been registered as a company under the Companies Act 1956 on 30 October 2006.

Introduction

Under the Eleventh Five Year Plan of India(2007–2012), Ministry of Railways is constructing a new Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) covering about 2762 route km long two routes - the Eastern Corridor from Ludhiana to Dankuni and the Western Corridor from Jawahar Lal Nehru Port, at Nhava Sheva near Mumbai to Tughlakabad, Delhi/Dadri along with interlinking of two corridors at Khurja. Upgrading of transportation technology, increase in productivity and reduction in unit transportation cost are the focus areas for the project.^[1]

DFCCIL has been designated by Government of India as a `special purpose vehicle`, and has been created to undertake planning & development, mobilization of financial resources and construction, maintenance and operation of the Dedicated Freight Corridors. DFCCIL has been registered as a company under the Companies Act 1956 on 30 October 2006.^[2]

Need for Dedicated Freight Corridor Project

Economic liberalization of 1991 followed by Information Technology industry explosion have taken India to a new growth scenario. Backed by strong fundamentals and commendable growth in the past three to four years, the resplendent Indian Economy is poised to grow even further at an average of 8 to 10% in the next 3 years.^{[citation needed]} Transport requirement in the country, being primarily a derived demand, is slated to increase with elasticity of 1.25 with GDP growth by 10 to 12% in the medium and long term range. Riding on the waves of economic success, Indian Railways has witnessed a dramatic turn around and unprecedented financial turnover in the last two and a half years. This has been made possible by higher freight volumes without substantial investment in infrastructure, increased axle load, reduction of turn-round time of rolling stock, reduced unit cost of transportation, rationalization of tariffs resulting in improvement in market share and improved operational margins. Over the last 2 to 3 years, the railway freight traffic has grown by 8 to 11%, which is projected to cross 1100 million tonnes by the end of 11th Five Year Plan.

The Indian Railways’ quadrilateral linking the four metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, commonly known as the Golden Quadrilateral; and its two diagonals (Delhi-Chennai and Mumbai-Howrah), adding up to a total route length of 10,122 km carries more than 55% of revenue earning freight traffic of Indian Railways. The existing trunk routes of Howrah-Delhi on the Eastern Corridor and Mumbai-Delhi on the Western Corridor are highly saturated, line capacity utilization varying between 115% to 150%.^{[citation needed]}The surging power needs requiring heavy coal movement, booming infrastructure construction and growing international trade has led to the conception of the Dedicated Freight Corridors along the Eastern and Western Routes.

Historical Perspective

Accordingly, the seeds for the project were sown as early as in April, 2005, wherein, Honourable Prime Ministers of India and Japan made a joint declaration for feasibility and possible funding of the dedicated rail freight corridors. Honourable Minister for Railways, almost at the same time, announced in the Parliament the need and planning for the project. Immediately thereafter, RITES was entrusted with the feasibility study of both eastern and western corridors^{[citation needed]}. In May 2005, Committee on Infrastructure (COI) constituted a Task Force, chaired by Shri Anwarul Huda, Member Planning Commission to prepare a concept paper on Delhi-Mumbai (Western) and Delhi-Howrah (Eastern) dedicated freight corridor projects, and to suggest a new organizational structure for planning, financing, construction and operation of these corridors. RITES, in January 2006, submitted the Feasibility Study Report of both the corridors to Ministry of Railways. Almost simultaneously, the Cabinet approved the report of the Task Force of the COI, which directed that a SPV should be set up to construct and operate the DFC. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) gave "in principle" approval to the Feasibility Study report asking the MOR to go ahead with Preliminary Engineering cum Traffic Survey (PETS) for the two corridors, firm up the cost of the project and work out the financing options. In consonance with the recommendation of the Task Force of COI, a SPV, named "Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited" (DFCCIL) was incorporated under Companies Act in October 2006. Subsequently, RITES submitted the PETS Report based on which the project was approved at a cost of Rs. 28,181 Crore^{[citation needed]}.

Corporate Office

S.No.	Name	Designation
1	Mr VK Kaul	Managing Director
2	Mr. Sanjeev Pahwa	Managing Director, Secretary
3	R. Sinha	Director (Finance)
4	Mr. P. N. Shukla	Director (Operations and BD)
5	B. B. Mr. Saran	Director (P P)
6	Mrs Meenu Kapoor	Company Secretary
7	Mr. SK Raina	Group General Manager / Engg-I
8	Mr. Rakesh Goyal	Group General Manager (Engg-II) and HR
9	Mr. Abhay Mishra	Group General Manager / Finance
10	Mr. Surinder Kaul	Group General Manager / hypothesis
11	Mr. Vinod Kumar Yadav	Group General Manager / Electrical
12	Mr AK Minocha	Group General Manager (Safety)
13	Mr. Arun Arora	General Manager (Administration)
14	Mr. Shailesh Kumar Pathak	General Manager / Engg - III
15	Mr. Kumar Niraj	General Manager (BD)
16	Mr. Rahul Agarwal	General Manager (S and T)
17	Mr. Bharat Slhotra	General Manager / Finance / II, Chief information officer

See also

• DFCCIL Official Website
• Transport in India
• Indian Railways
• Rail Transport in India

References

1. ^ "Strategy of Indian Railways During the Eleventh Five Year Plan". Government of India. 2007-2008. http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2007-08/chapt2008/chap93.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-18. 
2. ^ "Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd.". Ministry of Railways, Government of India. 2009. http://dfccil.org/wps/portal/DFCCPortal. Retrieved 2010-09-18.