Doubling of Hatia [Ranchi]-Bondamunda Rail Line - 159 km

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Information South Eastern Railway - JH has come up with Doubling of Hatia [Ranchi]-Bondamunda Rail Line - 159 km with a ticket size of 3029.04 INR Crores. This project in Railway Track sub-sector involves The current status of the project is - and is being developed through the EPC route. Economic/Social Impact of the Project Ranchi [Hatia]-Bondamunda line is presently a single line section which is being used for goods traffic to and from Bokaro Steel Plant and Rourkela Steel Plant. The line is over saturated with utilization resulting in detention of trains and consequential loss of revenue. Hence to cope with the existing as well as additional traffic, doubling of the whole section is required. This Pragati Project envisages the doubling of this line of 159 km as approved by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in 2016. Doubling of this line will augment the line capacity of the section and serve freight traffic needs of the upcoming Super Thermal Power Plant at Barch and other Thermal Power Plants like Katni and Baruni. The construction of double line will ease traffic bottlenecks.