On a Mission Mode to become 'Future Ready,' Railways is on the way to deliver 58 super critical and 68 critical projects worth more than ￥1,15,000 core

摘要

On a mission mode to become 'Future Ready,' Railways is on its way to deliver 58 super critical and 68 critical projects worth more than ￥ 1,15,000 crore in next few years. In spite of Covid challenges, Indian Railways is going on rapidly to complete the projects which are vital for increasing the capacity of tracks. 29 Super Critical Projects of a total length of 1,044 Km costing ￥ 11,588 Cr got commissioned in the last 1 year. Indian Railways identified total 58 Super Critical Projects of a total length of 3750 km costing ￥ 39,663 Crore. Out of these total 58 Super Critical Projects, 29 projects have since been completed, 27 projects will be completed by December 2021 while the remaining 02 projects will be handed over by March 2022. Most of the traffic of Indian Railways moves on Indian Railway network on Golden Quadrilateral, High Density Network routes and Highly Utilized Network routes. The high density and highly utilized network routes constitute 51% route length of the Indian Railways network but carries 96% of traffic. Based on traffic density, type of commodity moved, importance of route from the point of view of strategic considerations etc. the projects requiring urgent expansion including those which are already progressing well (expenditure already more than 60%) have been categorized as Super Critical projects (58 nos) and the projects requiring completion in next stage have been defined as Critical projects (68 nos). All are civil projects (Includes all related electrification and signalling works also).