38 Projects of New Lines, Gauge Conversion and Doubling of 5,098 Km Costing ₹89,780 Crore Sanctioned in Maharashtra

Ministry of Railways 38 Projects of New Lines, Gauge Conversion and Doubling of 5,098 Km Costing ₹89,780 Crore Sanctioned in Maharashtra 98 Surveys of New Line, Gauge Conversion and Doubling of 8,603 Km Sanctioned in Maharashtra During 2022-23 to 2025- 26 To Enhance Passenger Carrying Capacity, 238 Rakes of 12 Cars with Doors Sanctioned under MUTP-III & IIIA at a Cost of ₹19,293 Crore प्रव तथ: 20 DEC 2025 2:20PM by PIB Delhi Budget allocation during the last five years has increased significantly. Budget allocation for infrastructure projects and safety works, falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra is as under:

Period Outlay 2009-14 ₹1,171 crore/year 2025-26 ₹23,778 crore (More than 20 times) The details of commissioning/laying of new track falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra during 2009-14 and 2014-25 is as under:

Period New track Commissioned Average commissioning of new tracks 2009-14 292 Km 58.4 Km/year 2014-25 2,292 Km 208.36 Km/year (More than 3 times) Capacity Augmentation works for Mumbai Suburban area Presently, about 120 originating Mail/Express trains and about 3200 sub urban trains are handled daily in Mumbai area. To increase capacity and improve safety, several steps have been taken by Indian Railways

as under:To increase train handling capacity at various stations in Mumbai area, following works have been completed/taken up/planned at various stations:

SN Location Details 1 Bandra Terminus 3 Pit Lines have been completed 2 Mumbai Central Platform extension for 24 LHB coaches 3 Jogeshwari 2 additional platforms 4 Dadar 1 additional platform 5 Vasai road 6 platforms, 3 pit lines and 5 stabling lines 6 Panvel-Kalamboli 5 platforms, 4 pit lines and 2 sick lines 7 Kalyan 6 platforms and 4 pit lines 8 LTT 4 platforms and 2 pit lines 9 Parel 6 platforms, 5 pit lines, 6 stabling lines 10 Virar 25 stabling lines 11 Dahanu road 11 stabling lines 12 Mira road 25 stabling lines In addition to above, Platform extension work at 34 stations to accommodate 15 car EMUs have been taken up.

To improve the capacity of rail network in Mumbai suburban area, Mumbai Urban Transport Project

(MUTP)-II costing ₹8,087 crore, MUTP-III costing ₹10,947 crore and MUTP-IIIA costing ₹33,690 crore have been sanctioned. These projects include following works in Mumbai Suburban Area:

SN Name of Project Cost (in Cr.) 1 CSMT-Kurla 5th & 6th Line (MUTP-II) (17.5 km) 8912 Mumbai Central-Borivali 6th Line (MUTP-II) (30 km) 919 3 Extension of Harbour Line from Goregaon-Borivali (MUTP-IIIA) (7 km) 826 4 Borivali-Virar 5th & 6th Line (MUTP-IIIA) (26 km) 2,184 5 Virar-Dahanu Road 3rd & 4th Line (MUTP-III) (64 km) 3,587 6 Panvel-Karjat Suburban Corridor (MUTP-III) (29.6 km) 2,782 7 Airoli-Kalwa (elevated) Suburban Corridor link (MUTP-III) (3.3 km) 476 8 Kalyan-Asangaon 4thLine (MUTP-IIIA) (32 km) 1,759 9 Kalyan-Badlapur 3rd& 4th line (MUTP-IIIA) (14 km) 1,510 10 Kalyan-Kasara 3rd Line (67 km) 793 11 Naigaon-Juichandra double chord Line (6 km) 176 12 Nilaje-Kopar double chord Line (5 km) 338 13 Kalyan Yard remodeling work 866 To enhance passenger carrying capacity, 238 rakes of 12 cars each with doors have been sanctioned under MUTP-III & IIIA at a cost of ₹19,293 crore. The process for procurement of these rakes has been taken up.

As on 01.04.2025, 38 projects (11 New Lines, 02 Gauge Conversion and 25 Doubling), of a total length of 5,098 Km, costing ₹89,780 crore, falling fully/partly in Maharashtra, are sanctioned. The summary is as

under:- Category No. of sanctioned Total Length Exp.

Projects Length Commissioned upto Mar'25 (in Km) Upto Mar'25 (Km) (₹ in Cr.) New Line 11 1,355 234 10,504 Gauge 02 609 334 4,286 Conversion Doubling/ 25 3,134 1,792 24,617 MultitrackingTotal 38 5,098 2,360 39,407 Details of some of the recently completed projects falling fully/partly in Maharashtra are as under:

S.No. Project Cost (₹ in crore) 1 Pune-Miraj-Londa Doubling (467 Km) 4,670 2 Manmad-Jalgaon 3rd line (160 Km) 2,574 3 Jabalpur-Gondia Gauge Conversion (300 Km) 2,005 4 Chhindwara-Nagpur Gauge Conversion (150 Km) 1,512 5 Panvel-Pen Doubling (35 Km) 263 6 Pen-Roha Doubling (40 Km) 330 7 Udhna-Jalgaon Doubling (307 Km) 2,448 8 Mudkhed-Parbhani Doubling (81 Km) 673 9 Bhusawal-Jalgaon 3rd line (24 Km) 325 10 Jalgaon-Bhusawal 4th line (24 Km) 261 11 Daund-Gulbarga Doubling (225 Km) 3,182 Some of the main projects falling fully/partly in the Maharashtra which have been taken up are as under:

S.No. Name of the project Cost (₹ In crore) 1 Gondia-Ballarshah (Chanda Fort) doubling (240 Km) 4,373 2 Hotgi Byepass line (6 Km) 177 3 Panvel-Chouk doubling section (17 Km) 491 4 Panvel-Somtane Chord line and Panvel-Chikhli Chord line (8 445 Km)5 Miraj Chord line (2 Km) 129 6 Wardha-Balharshah quadrupling (135 Km) 2,226 7 Puntamba-Sainagar Shirdi doubling (17 Km) 227 8 Itarsi-Nagpur 4th line (297 Km) 5,010 9 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar-Parbhani doubling (177 Km) 2,006 10 Gondia-Dongargarh 4th line (84 Km) 1,985 11 Wardha-Bhusawal 3rd & 4th line (314 Km) 8,199 12 Jalgaon-Bhadli 5th line (9 Km) 114 13 Gondia bypass line (19 Km) 354 14 Jalgaon-Manmad 4th line (160 km) 2,574 15 Bhusawal-Khandwa 3rd & 4th line (131 Km) 3,285 16 Mudkhed-Medchal & Mahbubnagar-Dhone doubling (417 Km) 4,686 17 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar-Ankai doubling (98 Km) 961 18 Nilaje and Kopar double chord Line (5 Km) 338 19 Mudkhed junction bypass line (3 Km) 62 20 Purna bypass line (3 Km) 72 21 Ankai bypass Line (2 Km) 29 22 Parbhani-Parli Vaijanath doubling (65 Km) 770 23 Latur Road Station bypass line (2 Km) 47 24 Parli-Vaijanath Station bypass line (2 Km) 56 25 Pachora-Jamner gauge conversion with extension upto 955 Malkapur (84 Km)26 Vadhavan Port-New Palghar doubling (22 Km) 1,423 27 Ahilyanagar-Beed-Parli Vaijnath new line (261 Km) 4,957 28 Baramati-Lonand new line (64 Km) 1,844 29 Wardha-Nanded new line (284 Km) 3,445 30 Indore-Manmad new line (360 Km) 18,529 31 Wadsa-Gadchiroli new line (52 Km) 1,886 32 Jalna-Jalgaon new line (174 Km) 5,804 33 Daund-Manmad doubling (236 Km) 3,037 34 Kalyan-Kasara 3rd line (68 Km) 1,433 35 Wardha-Nagpur 3rd line (76 Km) 698 36 Wardha-Ballarshah 3rd line (132 Km) 1,385 37 Itarsi-Nagpur 3rd line (280 Km) 2,450 38 Rajnandgaon-Nagpur 3rd line (228 Km) 3,545 39 Wardha-Nagpur 4th line (79 Km) 1,137 Further, construction works on the flagship High speed bullet train project have gathered momentum in Maharashtra. Now 100% land acquisition has been completed. Works of bridges, aqueducts etc. have been taken up.

Western DFC also passes through Maharashtra. About 178 route Km of western DFC is situated in Maharashtra which is about 12% of overall route length of western DFC. 76 Km of this project from New Gholvad to New Vaitarna in Maharashtra has already been commissioned. Balance works have been taken up. Connectivity of WDFC to JNPT will boost the capacity to handle cargo and container traffic from port to Delhi NCR.

During the last three years i.e. 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and the current financial year 2025-26, 98 surveys (29 New Line, 2 Gauge Conversion and 67 Doubling) of total length 8,603 Km falling fully/ partly in the State of Maharashtra, have been sanctioned.

Railway projects are sanctioned Zonal Railway-wise and not State-wise or Region-wise as Indian Railways’ projects may span across State boundaries.Railway infrastructure projects falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra are covered under Central Railway, South Central Railway, South East Central Railway, South Western Railway and Western Railway Zones of Indian Railways. Zonal Railway wise details of Railway projects are made available in public domain on Indian Railway’s website.

Sanction of any railway project depends upon many parameters/factors which include the following:

Anticipated traffic projections and remunerativeness of the proposed route First and last mile connectivity provided by the project Connection of missing links and providing additional route Augmentation of congested/saturated lines Demands raised by State Governments/Central Ministries/Public representatives, Railway’s operational requirements Socio-economic considerations Overall availability of funds Completion of Railway project/s depends on various factors which include the following:

Land acquisition Forest clearance Shifting of infringing utilities Statutory clearances from various authorities Geological and topographical conditions of area Law and order situation in the area of project site Number of working months in a year for particular project site etc.

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