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.

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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