: Mumbai, 8^th August, 2025

Budget allocation in the recent years has increased significantly. Budget allocation for infrastructure projects and safety works, falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra 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)

 

As on 01.04.2025, 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/partly in Maharashtra including Amravati district, 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:-

 

 

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

 

Railways have taken up Bhusawal-Khandwa 3^rd & 4^th Line (131 Km) project costing ₹3,285 Cr. and a survey has been taken up for Murtizapur – Achalpur Gauge Conversion (77 Km) work falling fully/partly in the Amravati district of Maharashtra.

 

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

 

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, reduces operational bottlenecks, develop tourism industry and increase industrial activities in the region.

Further, Construction works on the flagship High speed bullet train project have gathered momentum in Maharashtra. Now 100% land acquisition has been completed. Works of bridges, aqueducts etc. have been taken up.

Western DFC 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.

Railway infrastructure projects falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra are covered under Central Railway, South Central Railway, South East Central Railway, South Western Railway and Western Railway Zones of Indian Railways. Zonal Railway wise details of Railway projects are made available in public domain on Indian Railway’s website.

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. 

This information was provided by Union Minister Of Railways, Information & Broadcasting And Electronics & Information Technology Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in reply to an unstarred question in the Rajya Sabha today.

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