India, Sept. 1 -- The Dedicated Freight Corridors represent one of India's most ambitious railway infrastructure programmes. How would you assess DFCCIL's progress and impactso far?

The Dedicated Freight Corridors are far more than a railway infrastructure project, they represent a transformational shift in the way India moves goods. I firmly believe that this is one of the most significant infrastructure initiatives undertaken by the Ministry of Railways since Independence.

For decades, freight and passenger trains shared the same network, creating capacity constraints that affected efficiency across the logistics ecosystem. The Dedicated Freight Corridors were conceived to change that paradigm.

Today, as the network has become operat...