The correct answer is North-South Corridor.

• Focusing on the development of railway freight corridors, former Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu announced the development of the three freight corridors In the Railway Budget of 2016.
• The three corridors were Delhi-Chennai (north-south), Kharagpur-Mumbai (east-west), and Kharagpur-Vijayawada on the east coast.
• The projects are funded through innovative models including public-private partnership (PPP) mode.

• Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd (DFCCIL):
  • DFCCILis a special purpose vehicle (SPV) of the Ministry of Railway (MoR).
  • It was established in October 2006 to channel resources to key and strategic sectors.
  • DFCCIL was set up with the mandate to build, operate, and maintain the dedicated freight railway lines along the Golden Quadrilateral rail routes and their diagonals.
  • It is constructing high-capacity and high-speed dedicated freight corridors (DFCs).
  • The government of India, through MoR, wholly owns DFCCIL.
  • The first phase comprises the construction of two DFCs spanning the Mumbai-Delhi (Western DFC) and the Delhi-Kolkata (Eastern DFC) rail routes, Covering a total length of 3300 kilometers (km).