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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1725
ANSWERED ON 13.02.2026
ELECTRIFICATION OF BROAD-GAUGE NETWORK
1725 SHRI BHUBANESWAR KALITA:
Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:
(a) the details of present extent of electrification of the broad-gauge network as on date, including a
zone-wise and State-wise breakup;
(b) the names of States/UTs and Railway Zones that have achieved 100 per cent electrification and
those yet to achieve it;
(c) the pace of electrification achieved during financial years 2023-24 and 2024-25 and the targets for
financial year 2025-26;
(d) whether electrification works in the North-Eastern States have been completed or are still ongoing;
and
(e) if so, the updated progress and expected completion timelines?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTING AND
ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)
(a) to (e) Electrification of railway network on Indian Railways (IR) has been taken up in mission
mode. So far, about 99.4% of Broad Gauge (BG) network has been electrified. The electrification in
remaining network has been taken up. Electrification carried out during 2014-25 and before 2014 is as
under:
Period Route Kilometer
Before 2014 (about 60 years) 21,801
2014-25 46,900
Zone wise status of electrification is as under:
SN ZONE % Electrified
1 Central Railway 100%
2 East Coast Railway 100%
3 East Central Railway 100%
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SN ZONE % Electrified
4 Eastern Railway 100%
5 Konkan Railway 100%
6 Kolkata Metro 100%
7 North Central Railway 100%
8 North Eastern Railway 100%
9 Northern Railway 100%
10 South Central Railway 100%
11 South East Central Railway 100%
12 South Eastern Railway 100%
13 West Central Railway 100%
14 Western Railway 100%
15 North Western Railway 99%
16 Northeast Frontier Railway 99%
17 Southern Railway 98%
18 South Western Railway 96%
State/UT wise status of electrification is as under:
SN STATE % Electrified SN STATE % Electrified
1 Andhra Pradesh 100% 16 Mizoram 100%
2 Arunachal Pradesh 100% 17 Nagaland 100%
3 Bihar 100% 18 Odisha 100%
4 Chandigarh 100% 19 Puducherry 100%
5 Chhattisgarh 100% 20 Punjab 100%
6 Delhi 100% 21 Telangana 100%
7 Gujarat 100% 22 Tripura 100%
8 Haryana 100% 23 Uttar Pradesh 100%
9 Himachal Pradesh 100% 24 Uttarakhand 100%
10 Jammu & Kashmir 100% 25 West Bengal 100%
11 Jharkhand 100% 26 Rajasthan 99%
12 Kerala 100% 27 Assam 98%
13 Madhya Pradesh 100% 28 Tamil Nadu 97%
14 Maharashtra 100% 29 Karnataka 97%
15 Meghalaya 100% 30 Goa 91%
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All new line / multi-tracking projects are being sanctioned and constructed with electrification.
Since 2023-24, 10,932 Rkm electrification has been done till Jan’ 2026.
Entire existing Broad Gauge (BG) network in Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and
Mizoram states of North eastern region have been 100% electrified. Electrification in remaining
network has been taken up.
The completion of Electrification project(s) depends on various factors like forest clearances by
officials of forest department, shifting of infringing utilities, statutory clearances from various
authorities, geological and topographical conditions of area, law & order situation in the area of
project(s) site, number of working months in a year for particular project site due to climatic conditions
etc. All these factors affect the completion time of the project(s).
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