Capacity Expansion is high on the priority of Indian Railways. In this regard Indian Railways is carrying out various projects expeditiously to double/triple/quadruple the existing Railway Lines.
Zone-wise break-up of ongoing Doubling/Tripling/Quadrupling projects details including length, cost, expenditure and amount allocated as on 01.04.2016 is as tabulated below:-
| S.No. | Zonal Railway | No. ofprojects | Length(in Km) | Cost | Expenditure upto 31.03.2016 | Outlay2016-17 |
| (in ` Crores) | ||||||
| 1 | Central | 16 | 1902.75 | 16052.85 | 1144.84 | 1398.83 |
| 2 | Eastern | 31 | 1253.65 | 7979.95 | 2934.03 | 974.70 |
| 3 | East Central | 22 | 1362.94 | 13879.99 | 110.08 | 1224.12 |
| 4 | East Coast | 16 | 2683.91 | 22227.66 | 1900.35 | 2647.30 |
| 5 | Northern | 28 | 1816.15 | 17797.00 | 5293.18 | 1884.77 |
| 6 | North Central | 15 | 1411.18 | 17072.41 | 295.57 | 1237.18 |
| 7 | North Eastern | 10 | 802.00 | 6320.97 | 184.94 | 710.10 |
| 8 | Northeast Frontier | 8 | 611.43 | 6768.95 | 514.38 | 670.01 |
| 9 | North Western | 11 | 567.72 | 3376.00 | 974.21 | 952.96 |
| 10 | Southern | 21 | 1080.31 | 9927.93 | 2687.68 | 2011.45 |
| 11 | South Central | 14 | 2195.49 | 20064.00 | 466.51 | 971.02 |
| 12 | South Eastern | 16 | 891.05 | 8841.09 | 1249.94 | 931.05 |
| 13 | South East Central | 12 | 1284.76 | 10456.41 | 1226.22 | 1718.65 |
| 14 | South Western | 9 | 1243.26 | 9188.37 | 941.63 | 1457.42 |
| 15 | Western | 10 | 1073.83 | 8056.20 | 2285.36 | 1946.04 |
| 16 | West Central | 14 | 1156.90 | 9079.62 | 1073.50 | 1240.19 |
IndianBureaucracy.com wishes the very best.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.