: Mumbai/New Delhi, August 1, 2025

 

 The progress of railway projects in Maharashtra is rapid as the State Government is giving full support for improving connectivity. There was a push back in many Railway connectivity projects from 2019 to 2022 due to the then state government’s policies. This had major impact on Railway and Metro projects, especially the high speed corridor. However, since 2022, there is good support for improving connectivity in Maharashtra.

The State of Maharashtra is covered under the jurisdiction of four railway zones, namely Central Railway, South Central Railway, South East Central Railway and Western Railway. For these zones, an allocation of ₹3,751 crore has been made for the financial year 2025–26, out of which an expenditure of ₹813 crore has been incurred so far.

Mumbai Urban Transport Project

To improve the connectivity in Mumbai suburban area and to meet the future demands of passengers, Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP)-II costing ₹8,087 crore, MUTP-III costing ₹10,947 crore and MUTP-IIIA costing ₹33,690 crore have been sanctioned. These projects include following works in Mumbai Suburban Area:

S. No.	Name of project	Cost (₹ in crore)
1	6th Line Mumbai Central-Borivali (30 km)	919
2	Extension of Harbour Line Goregaon-Borivali (7 km)	826
3	Virar-Dahanu Road 3rd & 4th Line (64 km)	3587
4	5th & 6th Line CSTM-Kurla (17.5 km)	891
5	Panvel-Karjat Suburban Corridor (29.6 km)	2782
6	Airoli-Kalwa (elevated) Suburban Corridor link (3.3 km)	476
7	5th & 6th line Borivali-Virar (26 km)	2184
8	4th line between Kalyan-Asangaon (32 km)	1759
9	3rd & 4th line between Kalyan-Badlapur (14.05 km)	1510
10	Kalyan Yard-Segregation of Main Line & Suburban	866
11	Vasai bye pass line (Double line) between Naigaon and Juchandra (5.73 Km)	176
12	Trespass Control (34 locations)	551

Further, as on 1^st April, 2025, 38 Railway projects of total length of 5,098 Km, costing ₹ 89,780 crore falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra are at various stages of planning and implementation, out of which 2,360 Km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of ₹39,407 crore has been incurred upto March, 2025.

The status of work is summarized as under:

Category	No. of projects	Total length (in Km)	Length Commissioned (in Km)	Expenditure upto March, 2025 (₹ in Cr.)
New Lines	11	1,355	234	10,504
Gauge Conversion	2	609	334	4,286
Doubling/Multitracking	25	3,134	1,792	24,617
Total	38	5,098	2,360	39,407

Commissioning of sections (New Line, Gauge Conversion and Doubling) falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra during 2009-14 and 2014-25 is as under:-

Period	New track commissioned	Average commissioning of new track
2009-14	292 Km	58.4 Km/year
2014-25	2,292 Km (8 times)	208.36 Km/year (more than 3.5 times)

Average Budget allocation for Infrastructure projects and other works, falling fully/partly in Maharashtra is as under-

Period	Outlay
2009-14	₹ 1,171 crore/year
2025-26	₹ 23,778 crore (more than 20 times

Details of some of the recently completed projects falling fully/partly in Maharashtra are as under:

S.No.	Project	Cost  (₹ in crore)
1	Jabalpur-Gondia Gauge Conversion (300 Km)	2005
2	Chhindwara-Nagpur Gauge Conversion (150 Km)	1512
3	Panvel-Pen Doubling (35 Km)	263
4	Panvel-Roha Doubling (75 Km)	31
5	Pen-Roha Doubling (40 Km)	330
6	Udhna-Jalgaon Doubling (307 Km)	2448
7	Mudkhed-Parbhani Doubling (81 Km)	673
8	Bhusawal – Jalgaon 3rd Line (24 Km)	325
9	Jalgaon-Bhusawal 4th line (24 Km)	261
10	Daund-Gulbarga Doubling (225 Km)	3182

Some of the major infrastructure projects taken up and falling fully/partly in the Maharashtra are as under:

S. No.	Name of the project	Cost (₹ In crore)
1	Ahmednagar-Beed-Parle Vaijnath New Line (261 Km.)	4,957
2	Baramati-Lonand New Line (64 Km.)	1,844
3	Wardha-Nanded New Line (284 Km.)	3,445
4	Dhule (Borvihir)-Nardana New Line (51  Km.)	1,171
5	Manmad-Indore New Line (309 Km.)	16,321
6	Wadsa-Gadchiroli New Line  (52 Km)	1,886
7	Jalna -Jalgaon New Line (174 Km.)	5,804
8	Pune-Miraj-Londa  Doubling (466 Km.)	6,463
9	Daund Manmad  Doubling (236 Km.)	30,376
10	Mudkhed - Medchal & Mahbubnagar - Dhone section Doubling (417 Km.)	4,686
11	Hotgi-Kudgi-Gadag Doubling  (284 Km.)	2,459
12	Kalyan-Kasara - 3rd line (68 Km.)	1,433
13	Wardha -Nagpur 3rd line (76 Km.)	698
14	Wardha-Ballarshah 3rd line (132 Km.)	1,385
15	Itarsi- Nagpur 3rd line (280 Km.)	2,450
16	Manmad Jalgaon 3rd line (160 Km.)	1,677
17	Kazipet -Ballarshah - 3rd line (202 Km.)	3,183
18	Rajnandgaon-Nagpur 3rd line (228 Km.)	3,545
19	Wardha-Nagpur 4th line (79 Km.)	1,137
20	Jalgaon-Manmad 4th Line (160 Km)	2,574
21	Bhusawal-Khandwa 3rd & 4th Line (131 Km.)	3,285

Further, prestigious Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (508 km) project at a cost of      ₹ 1,08,000 crore has gathered momentum in Maharashtra. Now 100% land acquisition has been completed. Works of bridges, aqueducts etc. have been taken up.

Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) from Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) to Dadri (1506 km) has been taken up at a cost of  ₹ 51,101 crore is also passes through Maharashtra. About 178 route Km of western DFC is situated in Maharashtra which is about 12% of overall route length of western DFC. 76 Km of this project from New Gholvad to New Vaitarna in Maharashtra has already been commissioned. Balance works have been taken up. Connectivity of WDFC to JNPT will boost the capacity to handle cargo and container traffic from port to Delhi NCR.

Further, during  the last three years i.e. FY 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and the current FY, 94 surveys (26 New Line, 2 Gauge Conversion and 66 Doubling) of total length 7979 Km falling fully/ partly in the State of Maharashtra have been sanctioned under PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan.

During  the last three years i.e. FY 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and the current FY, 94 surveys (26 New Line, 2 Gauge Conversion and 66 Doubling) of total length 7979 Km falling fully/ partly in the State of Maharashtra including Marathwada region have been sanctioned under PM Gati Shakti NMP. Some important surveys are as below:

S. No.	Name of Project	Length in Kilometer
1	Osmanabad- Beed- Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar New Line	240
2	Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar - Chalisgaon New Line	93
3	Bodhan- Latur New Line	135
4	Kalburgi- Latur New Line	139
5	Latur- Nanded New Line	104
6	Jalna-Khamgaon New Line	155
7	Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar - Parbhani Doubling	177

Station Development in Maharashtra

So far, 1337 stations including 132 stations in the State of Maharashtra have been identified for development under Amrit Bharat Station scheme. Development works at railway stations under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme in the State of Maharashtra have been taken up at a good pace. Till now, phase-I works of 15 Amrit Bharat stations (Amgaon, Chanda Fort, Chinchpokli, Devlali, Dhule, Kedgaon, Lasalgaon, Lonand Jn, Matunga, Murtizapur Jn, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Itwari Junction, Parel, Savda, Shahad, Vadala Road) in the State of Maharashtra have been completed under this scheme. Development, upgradation and modernisation of all stations, including Amrit Bharat Station Scheme, is generally funded under Plan Head-53 ‘Customer Amenities’ and details of allocation and expenditure under Plan Head-53 are maintained Zonal Railway-wise and not work-wise, or station wise or state-wise.

The names of stations identified for development under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme in the State of Maharashtra are: Ahmednagar, Ajni (Nagpur), Akalkot Road, Akola, Akurdi, Amalner, Amgaon, Amravati, Andheri, Badnera, Balharshah, Bandra Terminus, Baramati, Belapur, Bhandara Road, Bhokar , Bhusawal, Borivali, Byculla, Chalisgaon, Chanda Fort, Chandrapur, Charni Road, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Chinchpokli, Chinchwad, Dadar (CR), Dadar (WR), Dahisar, Daund, Dehu Road, Devlali, Dhamangaon, Dharangaon, Dharashiv, Dharmabad , Dhule, Diva, Dudhani, Gangakher, Godhani, Gondia, Grant Road, Hadapsar, Hatkanangale, Hazur Sahib Nanded, Himayatnagar, Hinganghat, Hingoli Deccan, Igatpuri, Jalgaon, Jalna, Jeur, Jogeshwari, Kalyan Jn, Kamptee, Kandivali, Kanjur Marg, Karad, Katol, Kedgaon, Kinwat, Kopargaon, Kurduwadi Jn, Kurla Jn, Lasalgaon, Latur, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Lonand Jn, Lonavla, Lower Parel, Malad, Malkapur, Manmad Jn, Manwath Road , Marine Lines, Matunga, Miraj Jn, Mudkhed Jn, Mumbai Central, Mumbra, Murtizapur Jn, Nagarsol, Nagpur Jn, Nandgaon, Nandura, Nandurbar, Narkher Jn, Nashik Road, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Itwari Junction, Pachora Jn, Palghar, Pandharpur, Panvel Jn, Parbhani Jn, Parel, Parli Vaijnath, Partur , Phaltan, Prabhadevi, Pulgaon Jn, Pune Jn, Purna Jn, Raver, Rotegaon , Sainagar Shirdi, Sandhurst Road, Sangli, Satara, Savda, Selu , Sewagram, Shahad, Shegaon, Shivaji Nagar Pune, Shri Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Terminus Kolhapur, Solapur, Talegaon, Thakurli, Thane, Titvala, Tumsar Road, Umri, Uruli, Vadala Road, Vidyavihar, Vikhroli, Wadsa, Wardha, Washim, Wathar.

Union Minister of Railways, Information & Broadcasting and Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw stated this in reply to an unstarred question by Shri Sanjay Raut in the Rajya Sabha today.

 

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