पत्र सूचना कार्यालय

To augment and increase line capacity of rail network situated in North East Region, 12 Railway projects (08 New Lines, 04 Doubling), of total length of 777 Km, costing ₹69,342 crore falling fully/partly in North Eastern Region (NER) have been sanctioned, out of which 278 Km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of ₹41,676 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, 2024 (₹ in Cr.)
New Lines	08	448	113	38,078
Doubling	04	329	165	3,698
Total	12	777	278	41,676

 

Average Budget allocation for Infrastructure projects and other works, falling fully/ partly in North Eastern Region (NER) is as under:-

Period	Outlay
2009-14	₹2,122 crore/year
2025-26	₹10,440 crore ( about 5 times)

Commissioning of sections (New Line, Gauge Conversion and Doubling) falling fully/partly in North Eastern Region (NER) during 2009-14 and 2014-2025 is as under:-

 

Period	New track Commissioned	Average commissioning of new tracks
2009-14	333 Km	66.6 Km/year
2014-25	1,840 Km	167.27 Km/year (about 3 times)

 

Projects commissioned falling fully/partly in North East Region since 2014, are as under:

SN	Project	Cost (₹ in crore)
1	Bogibeel Bridge  (92 Km.)	5820
2	Agartala-Sabroom (112 Km.) New Line	3170
3	Agartala-Akaura (5 Km) New Line	865
4	Rangiya-Murkongselek (510 Km) Gauge Conversion	3019
5	Kumarghat-Agartala (109 Km) Gauge Conversion	1242
6	Katakhal–Bharabi (84 Km) Gauge Conversion	348
7	Lumding-Badarpur- Silchar & Badarpur- Kumarghat (412 Km) Gauge Conversion	673
8	Lumding-Hojai  (45 Km) Doubling	410
9	Digaru-Hojai (102 Km) Doubling	1873
10	New Bongaigaon-Agthori (143 Km.) Doubling	2048

           

Some of the main projects falling fully/partly in the North East Region which have been taken up are as under:-

SN	Name of the project	Cost (₹ In crore)
1	Jiribam-Imphal (111 Km) New Line	18562
2	Dimapur-Kohima (82 Km) New Line	6911
3	Bhairabi-Sairang (51 Km) New Line	5521
4	Murkongselek-Pasighat (27 Km) New Line	980
5	New Bongaigaon-Goalpara-Guwahati (Kamakhaya) (176 Km) Doubling	2950
6	Saraighat Bridge (7 Km)  Doubling	1478
7	Aluabari-Thakurganj (20 km) Doublng	327
8	Aluabari-New Jalpaiguri (57 km)3rd & 4th Line	1786

 

Further, during  the last three years i.e. FY 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and the current FY, 17 surveys (13 New Line, and 4 Doubling) of total length 1790 Km. falling fully/ partly in the North East Region have been sanctioned under PM Gati Shakti NMP.  Some important surveys are as below:

SN	Name of Project	Length in Kilometer
1	Zubza-Imphal New Line	150
2	Lanka - Silchar via Chandranathpur  New Line	208
3	Sairang-Hbichhuah (Mizoram) New Line	223
4	Agthori-Dekargaon New Line	130
5	Tejpur-Silghat New Line	40
6	Chandranathpur-Agartala Doubling	244
7	Guwahati-Lumding 3rd line	181
8	New Jalpaiguri-Kamakhya 3rd & 4th Line	421
9	Katihar- Aluabari 3rd & 4th Line	145

 

After firming up of DPR, sanctioning of project requires consultation with various stake-holders including State Governments and necessary approvals viz. appraisal of NITI Aayog, Ministry of Finance etc. As sanctioning of projects is a continuous and dynamic process, exact timelines cannot be fixed.

Similarly, to augment and increase line capacity of rail network situated in North Eastern Railway, as on 01.04.2025, total 17 Railway infrastructure projects (08 New Line, 01 Gauge Conversion and 08 Doubling), of total length of 1,253 km, costing `20,466 crore on North Eastern Railway are sanctioned, out of which 354 km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of `10,486 crore has been incurred upto March 2025. The summary is as under:

Category	No. of sanctioned projects	Total length   (Km)	Length commissioned till Mar'25 (Km)	Total expenditure upto March 2025 (Cr.)
New Line	8	656	48	4042
Gauge Conversion	1	56	0	260
Doubling /Multitracking	8	541	306	6184
Total	17	1253	354	10486

 

Details of some of the recently completed projects on North Eastern Railway are as under:

SN	Name of Project	Latest Cost (Cr.)
1	Ghazipur city-Tarighat new line (17 Km)	1766
2	Indara-Dohrighat gauge conversion (34 Km)	213
3	Lucknow-Pilibhit  gauge conversion (263 Km)	1634
4	Ballia-Gazipur city doubling (65 Km)	650
5	Aunrihar-Jaunpur doubling (60 Km)	405
6	Malhaur-Daliganj doubling (13 Km)	183
7	Rosa-Sitapur Cantt-Burhwal doubling (181 Km)	2094
8	Varanasi-Madhosingh-Allahabad doubling (120 Km)	2018
9	Aishbagh-Manaknagar doubling (4 Km)	82

 

Some of the main projects on North Eastern Railway, which have been taken up, are as under:

SN	Name of Project	Cost (Cr.)
1	Anandnagar - Ghughuli via Maharajganj new line (53 Km)	958
2	Etah – Kasganj new line (29 Km)	389
3	Gorakhpur Cantt – Valmiki Nagar Doubling (96 Km)	1121
4	Barabanki-Burhwal 3rd line (27 Km)	426
5	Mankapur-Tikri doubling (28 Km)	280

 

Total 46 surveys (5 New Line, 2 Gauge Conversion and 39 Doubling), of total length of 1878 Km on North Eastern Railway, have been sanctioned during the last three years (2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025) and current financial year.

Completion of Railway project/s depends on various factors like quick land acquisition by State Government, forest clearance by officials of forest department, shifting of infringing utilities, statutory clearances from various authorities, geological and topographical conditions of area, law and order situation in the area of project/s site, number of working months in a year for particular project site etc. All these factors affect the completion time and cost of the project/s. 

This information was provided by the Union Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting and Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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Dharmendra Tewari/ Dr. Nayan Solanki/ Ritu Raj

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