Chhattisgarh East-West Railway Limited (CEWRL) is a joint venture company of South Eastern Coalfields Limited, IRCON International Limited and Government of Chhattisgarh (represented by CSIDC) was incorporated on 25th March, 2013 for developing the rail network and to facilitate coal traffic movement mainly from enhanced production from Gevra Road to Pendra Road in Northern Region of Chhattisgarh to meet the logistic challenges foreseen on account of coal evacuation and to meet the growing coal needs of the country. Ministry of Railways (Government of India) had notified the East-West Rail Corridor in the State of Chhattisgarh as a ‘Special Railway Project’ to provide national infrastructure for a public purpose and directed for acquisition of land under The Railways Act, 1989.

The role of promoters is to bring the necessity of rail infrastructure and its establishment to a common platform so that the desired objective can be achieved by an association for a limited period. While discharging the promoters’ role, SECL looks for eco-friendly coal evacuation process through Rail, IRCON shares the technical expertise for movement on Rail and GoCG provides the necessary space to lay the Rail. In order to initiate the process, a Project Execution Agreement was signed on 05.04.2014 by CEWRL with IRCON, having domain expertise on execution of railway projects to act as a Project Management Consultant for undertaking the construction work of the proposed rail project from Gevra Road to Pendra Road.