ECoR undertakes Rs 1,000 cr safety fencing work to ensure track safety

Bhuwaneshwar, Nov. 6 -- In a significant move to enhance railway safety and to facilitate increased train speeds, East Coast Railway (ECoR) has initiated extensive safety fencing works worth over Rs 1,000 crore along various railway sections across its jurisdiction withUnder this ambitious safety initiative, ECoR has sanctioned Safety Fencing works covering a total of 3133 Track kilometers across its jurisdiction, at an estimated project cost of over Rs 1,061 Crores at present. The works are progressing across all three divisions - Khurda Road, Sambalpur, and Waltair.

In Khurda Road Division safety fencing works for 1255 kms. at a cost of Rs.458 crores in the Bhadrak-Palasa, Khurda Road-Puri and Nergundi-Kerejang sections are in progress a...