With the Modi Government focusing on getting stuck infrastructure projects cleared within the first 100 days of assuming office, the railway ministry has prepared a 100-day plan to get critical projects worth INR 50,000 crore rolling.
The Railway Board will also make the independent railway tariff authority, to advise it on passenger and freight fares, operational within the given deadline.
Several projects 534 kilometer (km) Sonnagar-Dankuni section of the eastern railway freight corridor, electric locomotive factory at Madhepura and a diesel locomotive factory at Marhowrah (both in Bihar), Mumbai elevated railway corridor, port and coal connectivity projects and station redevelopment contracts-would be bid out within the given time-frame.
All these projects, to be built on public private partnership (PPP) model, have been stuck for over 5 years despite the investor's interest.
A railway board official said that "All these projects are under different stages of bidding and according to the 100-day plan, being steered by the new Railway Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, we'll award the contracts as per the new time lines."