Ministry of Railways has taken up construction of two Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFC) viz. Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) from Ludhiana to Sonnagar (1337 Km) and the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) from Jawaharlal Nehru Port Terminal (JNPT) to Dadri (1506 Kms.). So far, 1110 km out of total sanctioned length of 2843 km of DFC has been completed. The ...
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Indian Railways break several records in freight loading during Financial Year-2021-22
Indian Railways has for the first time ever breached the 1400 MT Freight Loading mark in this Financial Year. The Originating Freight Loading of Indian Railways for the FY 2021-22 stood at 1418.1 MT (provisional) which is 15% more than the previous best set in FY 2020-21 at 1233.2 MT. The incremental loading of ~ 185 MT has been led ...
Read More »Employment Generation in FPI Sector
The data for registered manufacturing sector including food processing sector is brought out by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation through the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) and for unregistered/unincorporated enterprises through National Sample Survey (NSS). As per the Annual Survey of Industries 2018-19, food processing sector was ranked 1st in total number of persons engaged in the manufacturing sector. ...
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The Ministry of Food Processing industries incentivizes setting up of Mega Food Parks and Agro Processing Clusters (Mini Food Parks) through credit linked financial assistance (capital subsidy) in the form of grants-in-aid under relevant component schemes of Central Sector Umbrella scheme “Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana”. State-wise details of Mega Food Parks and Agro Processing Clusters approved in PMKSY are ...
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