: Mumbai, August 1, 2025 

As on 1^st April, 2025, 38 projects (11  New Lines, 02 Gauge Conversion and 25 Doubling), of a total length of 5,098 km, costing ₹ 89,780 crore, falling fully or partly in Maharashtra, are sanctioned, out of which 2,360 km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of  ₹39,407 crore has been incurred upto March 2025. The summary is as under:-

Budget allocation for Infrastructure projects and safety works, falling fully/ partly in the State of Maharashtra is as under:

Commissioning of sections (New Line, Gauge Conversion and Doubling) falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra during 2009-14 and 2014-2024 is as under:-

Period	New track Commissioned	Average commissioning of new tracks
2009-14	292 Km	58.4 Km/year
2014-25	2,292 Km	208.36 Km/year (more than 3 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)	2,005
2	Chhindwara-Nagpur Gauge Conversion (150 Km)	1,512
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)	2,448
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)	3,182

Some of the main projects falling fully/partly in the Maharashtra which have been taken up 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

During the last three years i.e FY 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and the current FY, 27 Multi-tracking  project of total length 1991 Km., costing approx. 47,126 crore falling fully/ partly in the State of Maharashtra, have been sanctioned. 

These multi-tracking projects will enhance line capacity, provide additional passenger and freight traffic, enable faster movement of goods and services, reduce operational bottlenecks, improve logistics efficiency, increase in direct and indirect employment opportunities for the people of the region, develop tourism industry and increase industrial activities in the region.

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.

In Maharashtra, entire existing Broad Gauge (BG) network (5,938 Route Km.) has been electrified.  All New Line projects are being sanctioned and constructed with electrification.

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

Sriyanka Chatterjee/Priti Malandkar

 

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