Indian Railways to spend nearly Rs 22,000 crore on line expansion projects
In total there are 253 railway line expansion projects spanning various regions of India.
The Indian Railways has spent Rs 23,282.42 crore till March 31, 2016 in expenditure for carrying our various projects for increasing the existing railway lines.
In total there are 253 railway line expansion projects spanning various regions of India such as central, eastern, east central, east cost, northern, north central, north eastern, northern frontier, southern, south central, south eastern, south east central, south western, western and west central railway regions.
The total outlay for 2016-17 is expected to be Rs 21,970.97 crore. However, the total cost of these railway expansion plans is Rs 1.87 lakh crore.
S. No. |
Zonal Railway |
No. of projects
|
Length (in Km) |
Cost |
Expenditure upto 31.03.2016 |
Outlay 2016-17 |
(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 |
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