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.

Local trains arrive at Bidhannagar station. Photo: IANS

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
S. No.	Zonal Railway	No. of projects	Length (in Km)	(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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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.

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