Parliament Question: Electrification of Railway Lines across Country

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1875 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.02.2026 ELECTRIFICATION OF RAILWAY LINES ACROSS COUNTRY

1875. THIRU THANGA TAMILSELVAN:

DR. GANAPATHY RAJKUMAR P:

SMT. VIJAYLAKSHMI DEVI:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

(a) whether it is a fact that the Union Government is executing 100 per cent electrification of railway line across the country particularly broad gauge network;

(b) if so, the details thereof along with the present status of completion pendency of electrification of railway lines till date, zone-wise and State-wise particularly in Tamil Nadu and Bihar's Central Railway Zone;

(c) the details of the estimated cost and total amount spent on these electrification projects during the last five years, State-wise particularly in Tamil Nadu;

(d) the details of the timeline by when the 100 percent electrification of railway line be completed in Tamil Nadu; and

(e) the pace of electrification achieved (route kilometer/RKM completed per year) in the financial years 2023-24 and 2024-25 and the target set for the financial year 2025-26? 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 --2/- §-2- 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% 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% --3/--3- State/UT wise status of electrification is as under:

% % SN STATE SN STATE Electrified Electrified 1 Andhra Pradesh 100% 16 Mizoram 100% Arunachal 2 100% 17 Nagaland 100% Pradesh 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% Uttar 8 Haryana 100% 23 100% Pradesh Himachal 9 100% 24 Uttarakhand 100% Pradesh Jammu & 10 100% 25 West Bengal 100% Kashmir 11 Jharkhand 100% 26 Rajasthan 99% 12 Kerala 100% 27 Assam 98% Madhya 13 100% 28 Tamil Nadu 97% Pradesh 14 Maharashtra 100% 29 Karnataka 97% 15 Meghalaya 100% 30 Goa 91% All new line / multi-tracking projects are being sanctioned and constructed with electrification.

--4/--4- During last five years (2020-21 to 2024-25), expenditure amounting to Rs. 29,826 crore has been done on railway electrification projects including Tamil Nadu.

Since 2023-24, 10,932 Rkm electrification has been done till Jan’ 2026.

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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