Published : New Indian Express
/18-Jan-2018
The State Government asked the Centre to initiate the East Coast and East-West dedicated freight corridors to ensure seamless movement of freight between upcoming ports on Odisha coast, including the major port at Paradip and the vast Northern and Central hinterland of the country. Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik in a letter to Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said the State is fast emerging as the mining and metal hub of the country with substantive addition of power generation capacity.