Ministry of Coal undertakes 13 railway projects under PM-Gati Shakti

The Ministry of Coal (MoC) has undertaken 13 railway projects under PM-Gati Shakti.

The project aims to develop multimodal connectivity and identified missing infrastructure gaps for each projects. Four railway projects are successfully mapped in the national master plan portal under high impact projects which will be developed in the states of Jharkhand and Odisha and will facilitate movement of coal with rapid logistics and wider connectivity for all the commercial miners. The MoC,  in view of cleaner environment in coal transportation has given momentum to rail evacuation and also initiated news efforts to gradually move away from road movement of coal in country.