Parliament Question: Meerut-Bijnor Railway Line

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5483 TO BE ANSWERED ON 25.03.2026 MEERUT-BIJNOR RAILWAY LINE †5483. SHRI ARUN GOVIL: Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state: (a) whether the preparation of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) has commenced following the approval of the Final Location Survey (FLS) in August 2022 for the railway line from Meerut to Bijnor via Mawana and Hastinapur; (b) if so, the timeline for its completion; (c) whether the construction of this rail line is likely to impact the Meerut- Delhi Rapid Rail and Meerut Metro; (d) if so, the details of the Government's assessment of this impact; and (e) the details of the estimated impact on tourism in the historic city of Hastinapur due to the construction of this rail line? ANSWER MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTING AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW) (a) to (e): Meerut and Bijnor are connected on existing Indian Railway Network via Hapur & Gajraula. To provide additional connectivity, survey for Daurala (Meerut) – Hastinapur - Bijnor (64 km) new rail line was sanctioned. The survey has been completed and Detailed Project Report (DPR) has been prepared. After preparation of DPR, sanctioning of project requires consultation with various stake-holders including State Governments and necessary approvals viz. appraisal of NITI Aayog, Ministry of Finance etc. As § Page 1 of 6sanctioning of projects is a continuous and dynamic process, exact timelines cannot be fixed. The Delhi – Meerut Namo Bharat RRTS corridor and Meerut Metro corridor has been completed and commissioned. The alignment of Daurala (Meerut) – Hastinapur – Bijnor new rail line (64 km) is not affected by RRTS corridor. Uttar Pradesh : Railway Budget: Budget allocation for infrastructure projects and safety works, falling fully/partly in the State of Uttar Pradesh is as under: Period Outlay 2009-14 ₹1,109 crore/year 2025-26 ₹19,858 crore (Nearly 18 times) Track construction: The details of constructing new tracks falling fully/partly in the State of Uttar Pradesh during 2009-14 and 2014-25 is as under: New Track Average Commissioning of new Period Commissioned tracks 2009-14 996 Km 199 Km/year 2014-25 5272 Km 479 Km per year (More than 2 times) Projects sanctioned: As on 01.04.2025, 49 projects (10 New Line, 02 Gauge Conversion and 37 Doubling) of 3,807 Km length, costing ₹62,360 crore falling fully/partly in the State of Uttar Pradesh are sanctioned. The summary is as under:- Page 2 of 6Category No of Total Length Exp Projects Length Commissioned upto (km) (km) Mar'25 (Rs. in Cr.) New Line 10 1227 340 10517 Gauge Conversion 02 67 - 281 Doubling/Multitracking 37 2513 983 19813 Total 49 3807 1323 30611 Recently completed projects: Details of some of the recently completed projects falling fully/partly in the State of Uttar Pradesh are as under: S. Cost Project No. (Rs. in Cr.) 1 Meerut-Muzaffarnagar Doubling (55 Km) 430 Bahraich-Nanpara-Nepal Ganj Gauge Conversion (56 2 342 Km) 3 Ballia-Ghazipur city Doubling (65 Km) 650 4 Ghazipur city-Tarighat New Line (17 Km) 1766 5 Gonda-Gorakhpur Loop Gauge Conversion (260 Km) 863 6 Gonda-Bahraich Gauge Conversion (60 Km) 318 7 Barabanki-Akbarpur Doubling (161 Km) 1700 Kaptanganj-Thawe-Chhapra Gauge Conversion (234 8 819 Km) 9 Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur Gauge Conversion (83 Km) 589 10 Indara-Dohrighat Gauge Conversion (34 Km) 213 11 Lucknow-Pilibhit Gauge Conversion (263 Km) 1634 12 Bhadoi-Janghai Doubling (31 Km) 168 13 Lahota-Bhadoi Doubling (39 Km) 184 14 Etawah-Mainpuri New Line (58 Km) 313 15 Phaphamau-Prayagraj Doubling (14 Km) 212 16 Muzaffarnagar–Tapri Doubling (52 Km) 525 17 Utretia-Raibareilly Doubling (66 Km) 662 18 Raibareilly-Amethi Doubling (60 Km) 668 19 Alamnagar-Utretia Doubling (20 Km) 358 20 Bhimsen—Jhansi Doubling (206 Km) 2620 Domingarh-Gorakhpur-Kusumhi - 3rd Line and 21 508 Gorakhpur-Nakaha Jungle Doubling (21 Km) 22 Malhaur-Daliganj Doubling (13 Km) 183 Page 3 of 6S. Cost Project No. (Rs. in Cr.) 23 Ruma Chakeri- Chandari 3rd Line (13 Km) 177 Bareilly-Pilibhit-Tanakpur Gauge Conversion (102 24 313 Km) 25 Rosa-Sitapur Cantt-Burhwal Doubling (181 Km) 2094 26 Jaunpur- Akbarpur (Tanda) Doubling (77 Km) 676 27 Ramna- Renukut-Singrauli Doubling (160 Km) 2436 28 Janghai- Phaphamau Doubling (47 Km) 414 29 Varanasi-Madhosingh-Prayagraj Doubling (120 Km) 2018 30 Karaila Road- Shaktinagar Doubling (32 Km) 763 31 Deoband (Muzzafarnagar)-Roorkee (27 Km) 1289 32 Agra-Etawah New Line(110 Km) 427 33 Phephna-Indara, Mau-Shahganj Doubling (150 Km) 1778 Ongoing projects: Some of the projects falling fully/partly in the State of Uttar Pradesh which have been taken up are as under: SN. Project Cost (Rs. in Cr.) 1 Barabanki-Burhwal 3rd Line (27 Km) 426 2 Burhwal- Gonda Kacheri 4th line (56 Km) 796 3 Burhwal-Gonda 3rd Line (62 Km) 1118 4 Bahraich- Khalilabad New Line (240 Km) 4940 5 Katra-Ayodhya Dham Doubling (10 Km) 466 6 Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya- Prayagraj 3rd Line (150 2649 Km) 7 Billi-Chunar Doubling (102 Km) 1424 8 Chhapra-Ballia Doubling (65 km) 1046 9 Unchhar-Amethi New Line (66 Km) 1229 10 Etah-Kasganj New Line ( 29 Km) 389 11 Gorakhpur- Valmikinagar Doubling (96 Km) 1121 12 Varanasi-Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya 3rd and 4th Line 2464 (15 Km) 13 Jhansi-Khairar-Manikpur & Khairar-Bhimsen 4330 Doubling (431 Km) 14 Sahjanwa-Dohrighat New Line (81 Km) 1320 Page 4 of 615 Kuberpur-Yamuna Bridge 3rd line (10 Km) 170 16 Prayagraj (Iradatganj)-Manikpur 3rd Line (84 km) 1508 17 Dilkusha-Malhaur 3rd Line (8 km) 164 18 Bypass/Chord line at Ayodhya Cantt. (between 97 Salarpur-Masodha) (6 Km) 19 Didarganj - Shahganj - Bilwai Chord line (6 km) 137 20 Varanasi Shivpur 3rd line (6 Km) 76 21 Jaunpur Jn.- Zafarabad Doubling (6 Km) 177 22 Bhatni - Aurnihar Doubling (117 km) 2529 23 Mathura-Jhansi 3rd line (274 km) 5924 24 Agra Fort and Bandikui Doubling (150 km) 988 25 Janghai-Pratapgarh- Amethi Doubling (87 km) 1197 26 Barabanki-Malhaur - 3rd & 4th Line (33 km) 407 27 Phaphamau-Unchahar Doubling (72 km) 971 28 Aunrihar - Varanasi City 3rd Line (31 Km) 76 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 own operational requirements  Socio-economic considerations  Overall availability of funds Page 5 of 6Completion of Railway project/s depends on various factors which include the following:  Land acquisition by State Government  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. All these factors affect the completion time and cost of the project/s ***** Page 6 of 6