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ON TRACK: K.P. Singh, Chairman, Indian Railway Board, addressing a press conference in Bangalore on Thursday. — Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash
BANGALORE: : The dedicated rail freight corridor, connecting the four metropolitan cities and promising fewer halts will be operational soon, according to K.P. Singh, Chairman, Indian Railway Board. Mr. Singh, Chairman of the World Executive Council (WEC) of the Paris-based International Union of Railways (UIC), which is holding its three-day meeting here, was speaking to presspersons on Thursday. UIC is the apex body that frames policies for international railway projects and other activities such as training and international research. The proposal, he said, was before the Cabinet. The Planning Commission, which had met under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has approved the project, Mr. Singh said. He said the WEC is discussing the international railway corridors aimed at providing freight movement across the borders. The proposed North East-West corridor will provide connectivity from China to the U.S. while the South Corridor will connect Vietnam, Combodia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Iran, among other countries. He said the fact that different countries used different gauges is not a problem. This can be overcome easily. He did not elaborate on this. Mr. Singh said safety devices, which automatically launch an alarm system when two trains come closer than three km., were being tried in Northern Frontier railway. There were moves to use global positioning system (GPS) to avoid railway accidents.
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