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Bharatiya Janata Party · 2014
दावा
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आंशिक रूप से पूरा
दोनों गलियारे बन चुके हैं और चल रहे हैं, उस कार्यकाल के काफ़ी बाद जिसमें वादा हुआ था। रेल मंत्रालय ने 5 अगस्त 2026 को संसद को बताया कि लुधियाना से सोननगर तक 1,337 किमी का पूर्वी गलियारा और दादरी से जवाहरलाल नेहरू बंदरगाह तक 1,506 किमी का पश्चिमी गलियारा, कुल ₹1,24,005 करोड़ लागत पर, ‘पूरे और चालू हो चुके हैं’। मंत्रालय जो तुलना स्वयं करता है वह वादे का सबसे मज़बूत साक्ष्य है: 2014 तक पूरे हुए रूट किलोमीटर — शून्य; 2014 से मार्च 2026 तक — 2,843। गलियारों पर रोज़ लगभग 443 गाड़ियाँ चलती हैं, और 2025-26 में 1,47,993 माल गाड़ियों ने इस नेटवर्क का उपयोग किया। वादे में ‘तेज़ किया जाएगा’ कहा था, कोई तिथि नहीं, इसलिए 2019 के बाद की देरी उसे नहीं तोड़ती — पर 2006 में स्वीकृत परियोजना को दो दशक लगे।
“माल गलियारों और उनसे जुड़े औद्योगिक गलियारों का काम तेज़ किया जाएगा। इससे लोगों और सामान की आवाजाही तेज़ होगी।”कोई कैग निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं
इस योजना पर कैग की कोई निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं हुई है। लेखापरीक्षा का न होना इस बात का प्रमाण नहीं है कि दावा सही है या ग़लत।
समर्पित माल गलियारों की पूर्णता को कवर करने वाली कोई कैग लेखापरीक्षा हमारे पास मौजूद रिपोर्टों में संसद में नहीं रखी गई है। यहाँ के आँकड़े रेल मंत्रालय के अपने हैं।
कोई लेखापरीक्षा अवधि नहीं — इस योजना पर कैग की कोई निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं हुई।
2,843 route km of dedicated freight corridor completed between 2014 and March 2026, against nil up to 2014
बना हुआ पूर्वी गलियारा सोननगर तक जाता है; सोननगर-डानकुनी खंड अलग से लिया जाना था और चालू हुए 1,337 किमी का हिस्सा नहीं है। आगे के गलियारे अभी प्रस्ताव चरण में हैं।
Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2903, Development of Dedicated Freight Corridor Projects — answer by the Ministry of Railways
The 2014 promise on freight corridors is a verb, not a target: "Work on the Freight Corridors and attendant Industrial Corridors will be expedited."
That makes it a promise about pace, and the Ministry of Railways' answer of 5 August 2026 supplies the comparison in the form the promise invites. Route kilometres of dedicated freight corridor completed "upto 2014": Nil. Completed "2014 to 2026 (Till March 2026)": 2,843.
The two corridors themselves: "Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) from Ludhiana to Sonnagar (1337 Km) and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) from Dadri to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Terminal (JNPT) (1506 Km) at a total cost of ₹1,24,005 Cr. Both the DFCs… have been completed and commissioned."
They are carrying traffic, not sitting idle: "On average, about 443 trains are operated per day on DFCs. During FY 2025-26, total 1,47,993 freight trains were operated on DFC network." Freight moved off the mixed passenger-and-goods trunk routes is the whole point of building them, and that has happened.
Three qualifications, none of which overturns the finding.
The timeline. The corridors were sanctioned in 2006 and the first sections opened only from 2020; full commissioning came around two decades after approval and well after the 2014-19 term. The manifesto did not name a date, so the promise is not broken by lateness — but "expedited" is doing a lot of work for a project that took twenty years.
The scope. The Eastern corridor as commissioned ends at Sonnagar; the onward Sonnagar-Dankuni stretch was separated out and is not in the 1,337 km. Additional corridors — East Coast, East-West, North-South — remain proposals.
And the industrial corridors named alongside them in the same sentence are a separate programme with its own, slower record, which this answer does not cover and we do not assess here.
Measured against what was promised — expedite work on the freight corridors — the record shows nil before and 2,843 route kilometres after, both corridors commissioned and heavily used. Our verdict is accurate, with delivery recorded as partly delivered because it fell outside the term.
BJP Election Manifesto 2014 — Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat
“Our Pledge — Ek Bharat - Shreshtha Bharat: Vibrant and Participatory Democracy; Empowered and Inspired People; Inclusive and Sustainable Development; Quality life in Villages and Cities; Basic Amenities to All; Flourishing Agriculture; Productive Youth; Involved Women; Robust physical and social Infrastructure; Innovative and Technologically driven Society; Globally competitive Economy; Brand India built on Quality; Strong, Effective and Futuristic Institutions; Open, Transparent and Systems-based Government; Pro-active, Pro-people Good Governance.”
Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2903, Development of Dedicated Freight Corridor Projects — answer by the Ministry of Railways
“Ministry of Railways had taken up construction of two Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFC) viz. Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) from Ludhiana to Sonnagar (1337 Km) and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) from Dadri to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Terminal (JNPT) (1506 Km) at a total cost of ₹1,24,005 Cr. Both the DFCs i.e. Eastern DFC (1337 Km) and Western DFC (1506 Km) have been completed and commissioned. The comparative statement showing completion of DFCs is as under: upto 2014 — Nil; 2014 to 2026 (Till March 2026) — 2843 route kms. On average, about 443 trains are operated per day on DFCs. During FY 2025-26, total 1,47,993 freight trains were operated on DFC network.”