Parliament Question: Survey for New Railway Lines in Maharashtra

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 6188 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.04.2026 SURVEY FOR NEW RAILWAY LINES IN MAHARASHTRA †6188. SHRI BHUMARE SANDIPANRAO ASARAM: DR. SHIVAJI BANDAPPA KALGE: Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state: (a) whether any survey has been conducted for laying new railway lines, gauge of old lines and electrification in various parts of the country particularly in the State of Maharashtra; (b) if so, the details of the length of railway lines to be laid, gauge conversion and electrification in various States including Maharashtra, location-wise; and (c) the State-wise details for laying new railway lines, gauge conversion and electrification particularly in Maharashtra during the current financial year? ANSWER MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTING AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW) (a) to (c): Capacity enhancement of railway network has been taken up by Indian Railways in a big way during last 11 years. The details of commissioning/laying of new track across Indian Railways is given below:- New track Period Average commissioning of new tracks Commissioned 2009-14 7,599 Km 4.2 Km/day 2014-25 34,428 Km 8.6 Km/day (more than 2 times) § Page 1 of 18Projects Sanctioned: As on 01.04.2025, across Indian Railways, 431 Railway infrastructure projects including port-connectivity (154 New Line, 33 Gauge Conversion and 244 Doubling) of total length 35,966 Km, costing approx. 6.75 lakh crore are sanctioned. The summary is as under:- Length Total Length Total Exp upto No of Commissioned Category NL/GC/DL Mar'25 Projects till Mar'25 (km) ( in Cr) (Km) New Lines 154 16,142 3,036 1,45,318 Gauge 33 4,180 2,997 22,753 Conversion Doubling / 244 15,644 6,736 1,22,858 Multitracking Total 431 35,966 12,769 2,90,929 Zone-wise/year-wise details of all Railway projects are made available in public domain on Indian Railway’s website. Some of the recently completed projects are as follows: Length S. Name of project (in No. Kms) 1 Udhampur- Srinagar- Baramulla new line 272 2 Bhairabi - Sairang New Line 51 3 Deoband - Roorkee New Line 27 4 Churu - Ratangarh Doubling 43 5 Tori-Shivpur 3rd Line 44 6 Araria - Galgalia New Line 110 Page 2 of 18Length S. Name of project (in No. Kms) 7 Himmatnagar - Khedbrahma Guage Conversion 55 8 Bahraich- Nanpara -Nepalganj Guage Conversion 56 Domingarh- Gorakhpur -Kusumi 3rd Line & Gorakhpur - 9 21 Nakaha Doubling 10 Vijapur - Ambaliyasan Guage Conversion 43 11 Pune- Miraj -Londa Doubling 467 12 Manmad - Jalgaon 3rd Line 160 13 Phephna –Indara- Mau -Shahganj Doubling 150 14 Adraj -Moti -Vijapur Guage Conversion 40 15 Katni -Bina 3rd Line 279 16 Gandhidham- Adipur Quadrupling 21 17 Khatuwas - Narnaul Doubling 24 18 Penukonda- Dharmavaram Doubling 42 During last three years i.e. FY 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and the current FY 2025-26, 306 projects (53 New Line, 17 Gauge Conversion and 236 Doubling) of total length 13,968 Km have been sanctioned across Indian Railways. Some of the major projects sanctioned are as follows: Cost SN Project Name (₹ in Crore) 1 Chopan – Chunar doubling (102 Km) 1,553 2 Guntur – Bibinagar doubling (239 Km) 3,238 3 Mudkhed – Medchal & Mahbubnagar – Dhone doubling (418 5,655 Km) Page 3 of 18Cost SN Project Name (₹ in Crore) 4 Samakhiali – Gandhidham Quadrupling (53 Km) 1,571 5 Merta City – Ras & Bypass at Merta Road new line (56 Km) 1,038 6 Lumding – Furkating doubling (140 Km) 2,334 7 Ajmer – Chanderiya doubling (178 Km) 1,813 8 Motumari – Vishnupuram with RoR doubling (100 Km) 1,746 9 Bikramshila – Katareah new line with new bridge on river 2,549 ganga (26 Km) 10 Gunupur – Therubali new line (74 Km) 1,326 11 Malkangiri – Pandurangapuram new line (174 Km) 4,109 12 Badampahar – Kendujhargarh new line (82 Km) 2,106 13 Junagarh – Nabarangpur new line (116 Km) 3,274 14 Buramara – Chakulia new line (60 Km) 1,639 15 Jalna – Jalgaon new line (174 Km) 7,105 16 Bangriposi – Gorumahisani new line (86 Km) 2,549 17 Chandil – Anara – Damodar 3rd line (121 Km) 2,170 18 Bargarh Road – Nawapara Road new line (138 Km) 2,926 19 Sardega – Bhalumuda new double line (37 Km) 1,360 20 Varanasi – Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Multitracking with 2,642 rail cum road bridge on river ganga (15 Km) 21 Jalgaon – Manmad 4th line (160 Km) 2,773 22 Bhusawal – Khandwa 3rd & 4th line (131 Km) 3,514 23 Sambalpur – Jarapada 3rd & 4th line (127 Km) 3,916 24 Jharsuguda – Sason 3rd & 4th line (35 Km) 1,181 25 Gondia – Ballarshah doubling (240 Km) 4,819 26 Kharsia – Naya Raipur – Parmalkasa 5th & 6th line (278 8,741 Km) 27 Wardha – Balharshah Quadrupling (135 Km) 2,381 Page 4 of 18Cost SN Project Name (₹ in Crore) 28 Ballari – Chikjajur doubling (185 Km) 3,342 29 Koderma – Barkakana doubling (133 Km) 3,063 30 Itarsi – Nagpur 4th line (297 Km) 5,451 31 Dangoaposi – Jaroli 3rd & 4th line (43 Km) 1,752 32 Secunderabad – Wadi 3rd & 4th line (173 Km) 5,012 33 Furkating – New Tinsukia doubling (194 Km) 3,634 34 Bakhtiyarpur – Rajgir – Tilaiya doubling (104 Km) 2,192 35 Gondia – Dongargarh 4th line (84 Km) 2,223 36 Wardha – Bhusawal 3rd & 4th line (314 Km) 9,197 37 Hosapete – Bellary quadrupling (65 Km) 2,372 38 Kasara – Manmad 3rd & 4th line (131 Km) 10,154 39 Punarakh – Kiul 3rd & 4th line (50 Km) 2,668 40 Gamharia – Chandil 3rd & 4th line (55 Km) 1,168 41 Sainthia- Pakhur 4th Line (81 Km) 1,569 42 Santragachi- Kharagpur 4th line (111 Km) 2,905 43 Nergundi – Barang & Khurda Road – Vizianagaram 3rd line 5,618 (385 Km) 44 Son Nagar – Andal 3rd and 4th Line (375 Km) 13,606 45 Gorakhpur Cantt – Valmiki Nagar doubling (96 Km) 1,270 46 Jaipur – Sawai Madhopur doubling (131 Km) 1,269 47 Luni – Samdari – Bhildi doubling (272 Km) 3,531 48 Narkatiaganj – Raxaul – Sitamarhi – Darbhanga & Sitamarhi 4,553 – Muzaffarpur doubling (256 Km) 49 Prayagraj (Iradatganj) – Manikpur 3rd line (84 Km) 1,640 50 Tirupati – Pakala – Katpadi doubling (104 Km) 1,332 51 Ratlam – Nagda 3rd and 4th line (41 Km) 1,018 Page 5 of 18Cost SN Project Name (₹ in Crore) 52 Aluabari Road – New Jalpaiguri 3rd & 4th line (57 Km) 1,786 53 Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar) – Parbhani (177 2,179 Km) 54 Bhagalpur – Dumka – Rampurhat doubling (177 Km) 3,169 55 Itarsi – Bina 4th line (237 Km) 4,329 56 Vadodara – Ratlam 3rd & 4th line (259 Km) 8,885 57 Devbhumi Dwarka (Okha) – Kanalus doubling (141 Km) 1,457 58 Badlapur – Karjat 3rd and 4th line (32 Km) 1,324 59 Delhi – Ambala Cantt 3rd & 4th line (194 Km) 5,983 60 Gondia – Jabalpur doubling (231 Km) 5,236 61 Manmad – Indore new line (360 Km) 18,529 62 Errupelam – Amaravati – Nambur new line (57 Km) 2,245 63 Vadhavan Port and New Palghar station new double line (22 1,507 Km) 64 Deshalpar – Hajipir – Luna and Vayor – Lakhpat new line 2,526 (145 Km) During last three years i.e. FY 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and the current FY 2025-26, 982 Surveys (295 New line, 13 Gauge Conversion and 674 Doubling) of total length 67,010 Km have been sanctioned across Indian Railways. Maharashtra Railway Budget: 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: Page 6 of 18Period Outlay 2009-14 ₹1,171 crore/year 2025-26 ₹23,778 crore (More than 20 times) Track construction: The details of constructing new track falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra during 2009-14 and 2014-25 is as under: Period New track Average commissioning of new tracks Commissioned 2009-14 292 Km 58.4 Km/year 2014-25 2,292 Km 208.4 Km/year (More than 3 times) Projects sanctioned: 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 Total Length Exp. sanctioned Length Commissioned upto Mar'25 Projects (in Km) Upto Mar'25 (Km) (₹ in Cr.) New Line 11 1,355 234 10,504 Gauge Conversion 02 609 334 4,286 Doubling/ 25 3,134 1,792 24,617 Multitracking Total 38 5,098 2,360 39,407 Recently completed projects: Details of some of the recently completed projects falling fully/partly in Maharashtra are as under: Page 7 of 18S.No. Project Cost (₹ in crore) 1 Pune-Miraj-Londa Doubling (467 Km) 4,670 2 Jabalpur-Gondia Gauge Conversion (300 Km) 2,005 3 Chhindwara-Nagpur Gauge Conversion (150 Km) 1,512 4 Panvel-Pen Doubling (35 Km) 263 5 Pen-Roha Doubling (40 Km) 330 6 Udhna-Jalgaon Doubling (307 Km) 2,448 7 Mudkhed-Parbhani Doubling (81 Km) 673 8 Bhusawal-Jalgaon 3rd Line (24 Km) 325 9 Jalgaon-Bhusawal 4th Line (24 Km) 261 10 Daund-Gulbarga Doubling (225 Km) 3,182 Ongoing projects: To further improve the Railway Infrastructure in the state of Maharashtra, following works have been taken up:- S.No. Name of the project Cost (₹ In crore) 1 Ahilyanagar (Ahmednagar)-Beed-Parli Vaijnath 4,957 New Line (261 Km) 2 Baramati-Lonand New Line (64 Km) 1,844 3 Wardha-Nanded New Line (284 Km) 3,445 4 Indore-Manmad New Line (360 Km) 18,529 5 Wadsa-Gadchiroli New Line (52 Km) 1,886 6 Jalna-Jalgaon New Line (174 Km) 5,804 7 Daund-Manmad Doubling (236 Km) 3,037 8 Kalyan-Kasara 3rd Line (68 Km) 1,433 Page 8 of 18S.No. Name of the project Cost (₹ In crore) 9 Wardha-Nagpur 3rd Line (76 Km) 698 10 Wardha-Ballarshah 3rd Line (132 Km) 1,385 11 Itarsi-Nagpur 3rd Line (280 Km) 2,450 12 Rajnandgaon-Nagpur 3rd Line (228 Km) 3,545 13 Wardha-Nagpur 4th Line (79 Km) 1,137 14 Jalgaon-Manmad 4th Line (160 Km) 2,574 15 Bhusawal-Khandwa 3rd & 4th Line (131 Km) 3,285 16 Solapur-Tuljapur-Osmanabad New Line (95 Km) 2,933 17 Panvel-Chowk Double Line (17 Km) 491 18 Wardha-Balharshah 4th Line (135 Km) 2,226 19 Itarsi-Nagpur 4th Line (297 Km) 5,010 20 Wardha-Bhusawal 3rd & 4th Line (314 Km) 9,197 21 Asangaon-Kasara 4th Line (35 Km) 794 22 Badlapur-Karjat 3rd & 4th Line (32 Km) 1,324 23 Gondia-Dongargarh 4th Line (84 Km) 2,223 24 Gondia-Balharshah Doubling (240 Km) 4,819 Surveys: In last three years, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and current financial year 2025-26, 98 surveys (29 New Line, 02 Gauge Conversion & 67 Doubling) of total length 8,615 Km falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra have been sanctioned in the state of Maharashtra. Increasing train handling capacity in Mumbai area: Presently, about 120 originating Mail/Express trains and about 3,200 sub urban trains are handled daily in Mumbai area. To increase train handling Page 9 of 18capacity 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. New projects for increasing capacity: 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 Crore) CSMT-Kurla 5th & 6th Line (MUTP-II) (17.5 km) 891 1 Page 10 of 18SN Name of Project Cost ( in Crore) 2 Mumbai Central-Borivali 6th Line (MUTP-II) (30 km) 919 Extension of Harbour Line from Goregaon-Borivali (MUTP- 3 826 IIIA) (7 km) 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 Airoli-Kalwa (elevated) Suburban Corridor link 7 476 (MUTP-III) (3.3 km) 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 New generation trains: 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. Capacity Augmentation works for Pune Area: Presently, about 33 originating Mail/Express trains are handled daily in Pune area. Page 11 of 18To increase train handling capacity at various stations in Pune area, following works have been completed/taken up/planned at various stations: SN Location Details 1 Pune Junction 6 additional Platforms and Extension of 5 Platforms. 2 Hadapsar Extension of 3 Platforms to handle full length trains. 3 Khadki Raising and Extension of PF-3/4 and extension of running lines completed in July’2025. 4 Alandi New Coaching Terminal with 9 additional Platforms, 8 pit lines and 8 stabling lines 5 Phursungi 5 Stabling Lines at Phursungi In addition to above, following capacity additional works have been undertaken in Pune Area to increase the train handling capacity: SN Name of Project 1 3rd Line between Hadapsar and Ghorpuri Yard 2 New Block station at Manjari Bhadrukin Pune-Daund Section and Ramtekdi in Pune-Sasvad section 3 Bidirectional Signalling in Pune Sasvad Road Section Page 12 of 18Bullet Train project: Presently, the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) Project (508 km) is under execution. The Project is passing through the States of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli with 12 stations planned at Mumbai, Thane, Virar, Boisar, Vapi, Billimora, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand, Ahmedabad and Sabarmati. Entire land (1,389.5 Ha.) for MAHSR project has been acquired. All Statutory Clearances have been obtained. All 1,651 utilities have been shifted. The delay in land acquisition in the State of Maharashtra has impacted the project till 2021. The land acquisition picked up in 2022 in Maharashtra. The progress of various major items so far is as under: Item Progress Piers 430 kms. Girder 341 kms. Track Bed 174 kms. OHE Masts 153 kms. The progress of stations is given below:- S.No. Station Status Foundation works completed, Platform slab & roof 1 Sabarmati structural works and finishing works are in progress 2 Ahmedabad Structural works completed and finishing works 3 Anand/Nadiad have been taken up. 4 Vadodara Foundation work completed, structural works and Page 13 of 18finishing works have been taken up. 5 Bharuch 6 Surat Structural works completed and finishing works 7 Bilimora have been taken up. 8 Vapi 9 Boisar Foundation works have been taken up and in 10 Virar advanced stage. Structural works have been taken 11 Thane up. This is an underground station. Foundation works 12 BKC (Mumbai) almost completed and Base Slab has been taken up. The progress on the River Bridges is as under:- S. No. River Name Status Sub-Structure work completed, 1 Sabarmati River (480m) Superstructure work has been taken up. 2 Meshwa River (120m) 3 Vatrak River (280m) Bridge construction completed. Mohar (Shedhi) River 4 (160m) 11 out of 12 wells completed;5 spans 5 Mahi River (720m) launched 6 Vishwamitri River (80m) Bridge construction completed. 7 Dhadhar River (120m) 21 out of 25 wells completed; 4 spans 8 Narmada River (1366m) launched 9 Kim River (120m) Bridge construction completed. Foundation work has been taken up, 10 10 Tapi River (720m) out of 12 wells completed Page 14 of 1811 Mindhola River (240m) 12 Purna River (360m) 13 Ambika River (200m) 14 Venganiya River (200m) 15 Kaveri River (120m) 16 Kharera River (120m) Bridge construction completed. 17 Auranga River (320m) 18 Par River (320m) 19 Kolak River (160m) Daman Ganga River 20 (360m) 21 Darotha River (80m) 22 Jagani River (360m) Foundation works have been completed 12 Pile Cap and 11 Pier (out of 58) 23 Vaitarna River (2320m) completed. Ulhas River Branch Temporary Access Bridge (TAB) 24 (120m) completed to start the foundation work. Geo-technical Investigation (GTI) has Desai Khadi River Bridge 25 been completed and Design work has (400m) been taken up. The work of the under-sea tunnel (approximately 21 km) has commenced, out of which 4.8 km of tunnel between Ghansoli and Shilphata in Maharashtra has been completed. Further, to strengthen national transport infrastructure, provide a fillip to regional connectivity, economic growth, tourism, investment and employment generation, and encourage modal shift from road and air transport to rail, the Government has announced the development of the Page 15 of 18following seven new High-Speed Rail (HSR) corridors in the Union Budget 2026-27: - (i) Mumbai–Pune (ii) Pune–Hyderabad (iii) Hyderabad–Bengaluru (iv) Hyderabad–Chennai (v) Chennai–Bengaluru (vi) Delhi–Varanasi (vii) Varanasi–Siliguri Being highly capital intensive, the decision to sanction any HSR Corridor/Project depends on many factors such as outcome of DPR, techno- economic feasibility studies and availability of resources such as financing options etc. Dedicated freight corridor: 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. Railway Electrification: Electrification of railway network on Indian Railways 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. Page 16 of 18Electrification 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 In Maharashtra, 100% of BG network has been electrified. Further, all new line/multitracking projects are being sanctioned and constructed with electrification. Sanction of any railway project depend 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 Railway Infrastructure projects enable socio-economic development of the region including:  Better connectivity of the region with other parts of the country  Faster movement of goods and services  Improving logistics efficiency and reduction in transportation cost.  Enhance line capacity Page 17 of 18 Increase in direct and indirect employment opportunities for the people of the region  Reduced operational bottlenecks  Development of tourism industry and increase in industrial activities in the region. Completion 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 18 of 18