The Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited, the SPV formed to execute the project, has invited expression of interests for an engineer, procure and construct (EPC) contract worth Rs 3,000 crore for designing, engineering, procuring, constructing and commissioning double track electrified railway lines with signalling and telecommunication system and other related infrastructure for operation of freight trains on turnkey basis for the 300-km-long Bhaupur-Mandrak stretch on the Kanpur-Khurja Section of the Eastern DFC. “We are trying to begin work on this stretch by this November,” an official said.