Friday 9 March 2018

Tori – Balumath Rail Line & Balumath-CCL siding dedicated to the nation



On completion of the complete stretch of Tori-Shivpur-Kathotia Rail Line, around 100 Mt of coal will be evacuated annually from North Karanpura Coalfield of Jharkhand
Minister of State of Railways & Communications, Shri Manoj Sinha today dedicated to the nation the Tori-Balumath rail line and Balumath-CCL Siding. Flagging off the train through Virtual Conferencing from Rail Bhavan today, Shri Manoj Sinha said “need for streamlining transportation of nearly 170 million tonnes/per day of Coal had been felt for long from Jharkhand’s Latihar region. Since 2005-06, the Tori-Shivpuri 44 km new railway line had been approved. Till 2013-14 the progress was quite slow and only Rs. 145 Crore could be spent. Subsequent to its inclusion in Hon’ble Prime Minister’s PRAGATI portal, the project work was fast-tracked and as a result, 19.3 km Tori-Balumath section has been completed with an expenditure of about Rs. 1063 Crore. The revised sanctioned cost of this project is 1589 crore rupees. Out of this stretch today the 19.3 km run from Tori to Balumuth has been commissioned  due to the sincere commitment of Ministry of Railways and Jharkhand Government”.
The Tori-Shivpur new line (44.0 Kmis being constructed primarily for coal evacuation from Amrapali and Magadh coal mines of Latehar and Chatra districts of JharkhandThis area has huge coal depositBetween Tori to Balumath there are 3 stations, 5 major bridges, 7 ROBs and 39 minor bridgesAs per initial estimate, CIL proposed to evacuate total  80 rakes  of coal daily work from various coal blocksTwo sidings are being developed by CIL to connect Amrapali and Magadh coal mines to rail net work
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister congratulated the officers of the East Central Railway and particularly the engineers of the construction wing who helped complete the construction despite challengers of the difficult geographical terrain. The Tori-Shivpur rail line project is funded by Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) - a coal producing subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL).
Commissioning of Tori-Balumath rail line and Balumath-CCL Siding will help to evacuate 5 to 6 rakes of coal everyday in first phase which will result in annual offtake of 6-7 million tonne (MT). On completion of the complete stretch Tori-Shivpur-Kathotia rail line, around 100 MT of coal will be evacuated annually from North Karanpura Coalfield of Jharkhand.
CCL, with active support from central & state governments, has commissioned many long pending projects in the last 4 years. This includes two mega coal mining projects viz. Magadh OCP and Amrapali OCP.
Sl. No.
Name of the completed Coal Mining Projects
Capacity (MTY)
Original Date of Commissioning
Actual Date of Commission
1Magadh OC
51 (Normative)/ 70 (Peak)
April 2006
May 2015
2Amprapali OC
25 (Normative)/ 35 (Peak)
April 2006
July 2014

Two coal evacuation projects have also been completed by CCL/CIL with the help of Railways:

Sl. No.
Name of the completed Coal Evacuation Projects
Capacity (MTY)
Original Date of Commissioning
Actual Date of Commission
1Piparwar-Mcluskiganj Railway Line (upto Rajdhar Siding)
24
March 1998
July 2017
2Tori-Shivpur Rail Line
(Tori-Balumath Section)
48
2006
March 2018

CIL and Indian Railways have also planned for construction of:
      1. Tripling of Rail Line from Tori to Shivpur;
      2. Construction of Rail over Rail (ROR) Fly-Over at Tori Station along with 3rd leg connectivity to Mahuamilan Station yard; and
      3. Shivpur-Kathotia Rail line Connectivity (through JV).



Courtesy:pib.nic.in

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