I thank all the railway staffers for their hard work," he said. The railways said that as per initial estimate, Coal India Limited (CIL) proposed to transport a total of 80 rakes of coal daily from its various blocks. Two sidings are being developed by CIL to connect Amrapali and Magadh coal mines to the rail network. It is expected that 15 rakes of coal will be generated from each of the coal mines, it said. The first phase of the section between Tori and Balumath has been completed. "Work on the remaining part is in advance stage and likely to be completed by May 2018," he said. The Tori-Balumath section has been completed with an expenditure of about Rs 1,063 crore, the railways said. The revised sanctioned cost of this project is Rs 1,589 crore. The Tori-Shivpur rail line project is funded by Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) -- a coal producing subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL). The commissioning of Tori-Balumath rail line and Balumath-CCL Siding will help to evacuate five to six rakes of coal everyday in first phase which will result in annual offtake of 6-7 million tonne (MT). On completion of the complete stretch, Tori-Shivpur- Kathotia rail line, around 100 MT of coal will be evacuated annually from North Karanpura Coalfield of Jharkhand, the ministry said in a release.
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