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KoPT to draft DPR for Sagar Port rail connectivity

May 12: Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) will prepare a detailed project report (DPR), including identification of best technological option for Sagar Port, for National Highway Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd, Pon Radhakrishnan, Minister of State in the Ministry of Shipping said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on May 11.

“The Sagar Port project covers railway connectivity between Kashinagar and Sagar Port. Eastern Railways has taken up the project of rail connectivity as a feeder route to the eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) from Kashinagar to Dankuni,” the minister said.

“Rail-road alignment, involving 86.398 hectares of land acquisition, has already been finalised,” he added.