Surendranagar-Rajkot Track Doubling Status: Project nears completion! To launch by this date - PICS

Surendranagar-Rajkot Doubling Project: The doubling of the Surendranagar-Rajkot railway line is nearly completed, the Ministry of Railways informed on Tuesday, January 17. The length of the railway line will be 116.17 km and Indian Railways has completed 92 percent work of track doubling.

The project was proposed to accelerate rail infrastructure in Gujarat. The sanctioned cost for the project is approximately Rs 1056.11 crore. After the completion of the project, the line will benefit the cotton ginning industry and make Dwarka and Somnath more accessible to pilgrims.

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Surendranagar-Rajkot Doubling Project
Length: 116.17 KM
Sanctioned cost: ₹ 1056.11 Cr.
Overall Progress: 92%

Benefits: The line will benefit the cotton ginning industry and make Dwarka and Somnath more accessible to pilgrims pic.twitter.com/yegGleqZ46

— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) January 17, 2023

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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by PM Narendra Modi, had given its approval for the doubling of the Surendranagar-Rajkot project in the year 2016. The completion period of the project at that time was four years.

However, its deadline was postponed several times. Lastly, the deadline for the completion of the project was set for December 2022, but this was later extended to March 2023. Since the project is 92 per cent complete, it is expected that the Railways will meet its March deadline.

The Surendranagar-Wankaner-Rajkot broad gauge section is an important and saturated single-line section carrying traffic originating and terminating at various destinations in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat state. Doubling of the railway line will greatly ease the ever-increasing freight traffic between sections.

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As of now, the single line has to carry the passenger as well as freight traffic originating /terminating between Okha-Rajkot section, Porbandar-Kanlus section, Veraval-Rajkot section, and Maliya Maiyana / Navalakhi-Dahinsara-Wankaner section. In addition, freight traffic from two branch lines, Sikka-Kanalus junction and Windmill-Jamnagar sections, also converged on to the route. This makes it a very busy single-line section with very high potential to further growth due to the high industrial development envisaged in the Saurashtra region in the coming years. Once the railway tracks are doubled, the balance will be restored.