RVNL completes 18km Tunnelling works of Rishikesh-Karnaprayag New Rail line project

Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) for achieving the 18th km of Tunnelling on 12.11.2021 in the most challenging geology on the Rishikesh-Karnaprayag New Rail line project in a remarkably short span of 11 days.

About Rishikesh-Karnaprayag Project: 

• The Project, entrusted to Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, proposes to bring rail connectivity to the higher reaches of Uttarakhand.
• The electrified BG rail line will connect important towns like Devprayag, Srinagar, Rudraprayag, Gauchar, and Karnaprayag (5 districts). 
• This is a technically challenging project involving the construction of a rail line in the rugged Himalayan topography with complex geology and with 83.08% of the total stretch of 125km rail line lying in tunnels (total 17 tunnels). 
• The first station, Yog Nagari Rishikesh station was commissioned in March 2020. 

• 5 Adit tunnels have been completed and one of the three major Rail Bridges, over river Chandrabhaga Ji at Rishikesh, has been completed. 
• Construction of the other two bridges over river Alaknanda at Lachmoli and Srinagar, respectively, is in progress. 
• The team has notched a new benchmark in completing the 18th km of tunneling on 12.11.2021 in the most complex geology in a remarkably short span of 11 days.
• Project completion is planned for 2024-25.

Recent Achievements:

Recently, the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited team has achieved a milestone of doubling the 26.33 km Washimbe Bhalwani section of the Daund-Gulbarga doubling project. A great capacity addition project to the Golden Quadrilateral route.

• Doubling work in Washimbe Bhalwani section (26.33 km) of the Daund-Gulbarga doubling project has been inspected by Shri Manoj Arora Commissioner of Railway Safety Central Circle, Mumbai on 26.10.2021 & 27.10.2021. 
• The doubling work included the construction of 65 bridges, three new station buildings at Jeur, Pophlaj, and Washimbe stations, and a new Electronic interlocking at 4 stations. 
• With commissioning, a major bottleneck at Pophlaj station where trains were being reversed for crossing on this single line stretch on golden quadrilateral is being eliminated. 
• This completes 196.43kms of doubling out of 224.91. 
• The section is now operational for train services.

About RVNL:

• The company began its operation in 2005 with the appointment of a Board of Directors.  
• The company was granted Miniratna status in September 2013. 
• RVNL has been rated “Excellent” for the 9 successive years by the Department of Public Enterprises.  
• RVNL has also been ranked 1st amongst the Railway PSEs for the 4 times out of the last 5 years.
• The turnover of the company for the financial year 2019-20 has increased by 44.44%.  
• The authorized share capital of the company is Rs. 3000 cr. with paid up share capital of Rs. 2085 cr. 
• The company has been listed after its disinvestment of its stake of 12.16% of the company through IPO.

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Source: RVNL-Update