Lok Sabha Question No. 74 (STARRED), answered on 2018-02-07
Subject: On-going/Pending Railway Projects
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Y. S. AVINASH REDDY, MEKAPATI RAJAMOHAN REDDY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.74 TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.02.2018

## ON-GOING/PENDING RAILWAY PROJECTS

- *74. SHRI Y. S. AVINASH REDDY: SHRI M. RAJA MOHAN REDDY:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the various  on-going and  pending  railway projects in the State of Andhra Pradesh, project-wise and their present status;
- (b) the number of railway projects lagging behind the scheduled completion along with the details thereof;
- (c) whether  the  Kadapa-Bengaluru  railway  line  is  one  of  the railway  lines  that  is  getting  delayed  and  if  so,  the  details thereof and the reasons therefor;
- (d) the sanctioned/on-going projects of the State which are likely to be completed or undertaken during 2018-19; and
- (e) the measures being taken by the Government for the expeditious completion of these projects?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF RAILWAYS AND COAL (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

- (a) to (e): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (e) OF STARRED QUESTION  NO.  74  BY  SHRI  Y.  S.  AVINASH  REDDY  AND  SHRI  M.  RAJA MOHAN  REDDY  TO  BE  ANSWERED  IN  LOK  SABHA  ON  07.02.2018 REGARDING ON-GOING/PENDING RAILWAY PROJECTS

(a) & (b): 18 new line projects costing ₹ 20,301 crore having length of 2213 Km and 14 doubling projects costing ₹ 27,688 crore having length 2803 Km falling fully/partly in the State of Andhra Pradesh are in different stages of execution. The details of these Railway projects are as under:-

|   S N | Project                                | Year of Sanction   |   Latest Antici- pated Cost (₹ in cr.) |   Exp as on 31.03. 2017 (₹ in cr.) |   Outlay 2017-18 (₹ in cr.) | Present Status                                                                                                                |
|-------|----------------------------------------|--------------------|----------------------------------------|------------------------------------|-----------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|     1 | Nandyal- Yerraguntla (123 Km)          | 1996-97            |                                 966.43 |                             934.3  |                      100    | Yerraguntla -Kundu (120 Km) commissioned. Work in balance 3 Km has been taken up.                                             |
|     2 | Macherla- Nalgonda (92 Km)             | 1997-98            |                                 815    |                               3.5  |                        0.5  | Financial viability is under reconsideration.                                                                                 |
|     3 | Kakinada- Pithapuram (22 Km)           | 1999- 2000         |                                 220    |                              25.01 |                      100.5  | There is an existing parallel double line between Kakinada to Smalkot.                                                        |
|     4 | Kotipalli- Narsapur (57 Km)            | 2000-01            |                                2125    |                             238    |                      430    | Work of land acquisition taken up.                                                                                            |
|     5 | Obulavaripalle- Krishnapatnam (113 Km) | 2006-07            |                                 839    |                             645    |                      100.01 | Ph.I Venkatachalam - Krishnapatnam (20km): Commissioned. Ph.II: Obulavaripalle- Venkatchalam (93 km): Work has been taken up. |
|     6 | Tindivanam- Nagari (179 Km)            | 2006-07            |                                1080    |                             196    |                       47    | Land acquisition has been taken up.                                                                                           |

|   7 | Rayadurg- Tumkur (207 Km)                          | 2007-08   |   2000 |    465 |    182 | i) Rayadurga- Kadarideverapalli (63km): Commissioned. iii) Kadiridevarapalli- Doddahalli (16 km):                                                                                      |
|-----|----------------------------------------------------|-----------|--------|--------|--------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   8 | Kadapa (Cuddapah)- Bangalore (Bangarapet) (255 Km) | 2008-09   |   2473 | 340    | 240    | Kadapa-Pendlimari (21.3km): Commissioned. In balance section, land acquisition taken up.                                                                                               |
|   9 | Attipattu-Puttur (88 Km)                           | 2008-09   |    528 |   3.42 |   0.05 | Initially the project was taken up under 50:50 cost sharing with Ennore port Trust (EPT), Ministry of Shipping. EPT advised in Nov 2012 that they would not share the cost of project. |
|  10 | Nadikude- Srikalahasti (309 Km)                    | 2011-12   |   2299 | 198    | 340    | New Piduguralla- Savalyapuram (46 km): Earthwork and minor/major bridge taken up. In balance section, land acquisition has been taken up.                                              |
|  11 | Gudur- Durgarajapatna m (42 Km)                    | 2011-12   |    500 |   0.51 |   0.1  | Ministry of Shipping has been requested to take up this project as port connectivity project due to financial                                                                          |

|    |                                |         |     |      |       | viability constraint.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|----|--------------------------------|---------|-----|------|-------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 12 | Marikuppam- Kuppam (23.70 Km)  | 2011-12 | 313 | 0.03 | 15    | Land acquisition has been taken up.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| 13 | Bhadrachalam- Kovvur (151 Km)  | 2012-13 | 923 | 7    |  7    | State Govt. of Andhra Pradesh has given consent for cost sharing in Dec 2017. State Govt. of Telangana has requested to do revised survey for the project falling in their State. Revised survey has been taken up.                                                                     |
| 14 | Cumbam- Proddutur (142 Km)     | 2013-14 | 830 | 0.5  |  1    | Work included in Budget 2013-14 subject to obtaining requisite approvals. However, NITI Aayog has not approved the project.                                                                                                                                                             |
| 15 | Kondapalli- Kothagodum (125Km) | 2013-14 | 723 | 0    |  0.01 | Work included in Budget 2013-14 subject to obtaining requisite approvals. Project length pruned down from 125 km to 81.57 km between Kondapalli-Penuballi. State Govt. of Telangana has been requested to share the cost and consent for common alignment from Kothagudum to Penuballi. |

| 16       | Chikballapur- Puttaparthy-Sri Satya Sai Nilyam (103 Km)                                                            | 2013-14   | 692      | 0        | 0.1      | Work included in Budget 2013-14 subject to obtaining requisite approvals. However, NITI Aayog has not accorded approval for the project.   |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|----------|----------|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 17       | Srinivasapura- Madanapalli (75 Km)                                                                                 | 2013-14   | 296      | 0        | 0.1      | Work included in Budget 2013-14 subject to obtaining requisite approvals. However, NITI Aayog has not accorded approval for the project.   |
| 18       | Vijayawada- Guntur via Amravati (106 Km)                                                                           | 2017-18   | 2679.6   | 0        | 1        | New project included in Budget 2017-18 subject to requisite Govt. clearances. DPR report has been prepared.                                |
| DOUBLING | DOUBLING                                                                                                           | DOUBLING  | DOUBLING | DOUBLING | DOUBLING | DOUBLING                                                                                                                                   |
| 19       | Vijaywada- Gudivada- Bhimavaram- Narsapur, Gudivada- Machlipatnam & Bhimavaram- Nidadavolu DL with Electrification | 2011-12   | 1503     | 304.18   | 121.87   | Earthwork, minor and major bridges have been taken up.                                                                                     |
| 20       | Guntur-Tenali Doubling with electrification (24 Km)                                                                | 2011-12   | 168      | 140.76   | 36       | Earthwork, minor and major bridges have been taken up.                                                                                     |

|   21 | Kazipet- Vijaywada 3rd line with electrification (220 Km)   | 2012-13   |    2200 |   142.34 |   100 | Ph.I: Vijayawada- Rayanapadu- Kondapalli (17.49 km): Work in block sections completed. Yard works in progress. Ph.II Kondapalli- Kazipet (202 km): Land acquisition proposals submitted to State Govt.   |
|------|-------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|---------|----------|-------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   22 | Duvvada- Vijaywada 3rd line (335 Km)                        | 2015-16   | 3873.1  |     0.04 |   7.5 | Project kept in abeyance in view of East Coast DFC.                                                                                                                                                      |
|   23 | Gooty- Dharmavarm (90 Km)                                   | 2015-16   |  636.38 |   130.6  |  75   | Earthwork, major & minor bridges has been taken up.                                                                                                                                                      |
|   24 | Kalluru- Guntakal (41 Km)                                   | 2015-16   |  323    |    32.68 |  52   | Land acquisition has been taken up.                                                                                                                                                                      |
|   25 | Byepass at Renigunta, Dharmavaram, Wadi ( 21 Km)            | 2015-16   |  273.05 |     5    |  10   | Renigunta Bye-pass (6.6 Km): Agency finalised. Gooty Bye-pass (308 Km): Land acquisition has been taken up. Wadi Bye-pass (10.60 Km, DL): General Arrangement drawing has been taken up.                 |
|   26 | Byepass at Vijayawada, Kazipet (30 Km)                      | 2015-16   |  499.29 |    79.97 | 125   | Land acquisition has been taken up.                                                                                                                                                                      |
|   27 | Vijaywada- Gudur 3rd line (288 Km)                          | 2015-16   | 3246    |    51.5  | 100   | Tenders for earthwork, minor and misc works have been invited.                                                                                                                                           |

|   28 | Doubling of Yelahanka- Penukonda (121 Km)                      | 2015-16   |   860.43 |   205.92 |   120 | Earthwork, minor and major bridges have been taken up.                                                                                               |
|------|----------------------------------------------------------------|-----------|----------|----------|-------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   29 | Vizianagram- Sambalpur (Titlagarh) 3rd line (255 Km)           | 2015-16   |     2336 |   250    |    90 | Agency for Titlagarh to Langigarh (47 km) and construction of substructure of important bridge No. 343 finalised.                                    |
|   30 | 3rd line in balance section bet. Bhadrak- Vizianagram (525 Km) | 2015-16   |     5250 |   313.57 |   150 | Project kept in abeyance in view of East-Coast DFC.                                                                                                  |
|   31 | Guntur- Guntakal (443 Km)                                      | 2016-17   |     4000 |     0.01 |   124 | Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the project in May'2017. In 159 Km (Diguvametta- Santamaguluru): Earth work & minor bridges taken up. |
|   32 | Kottavalasa- Jagdalpur (Koraput) (189 Km)                      | 2015-16   |     2500 |   240    |   250 | Earthwork, minor bridges and major bridges have been taken.                                                                                          |

(c):  Kadapa-Bangalore  New  BG  line  (255.4km)  was  sanctioned  in  2008-09 with 50% cost sharing by the Government of Andhra Pradesh.  Out of 255.40 Km, 209.09  Km  falls  in  Andhra  Pradesh  and  46.31  Km  falls  in  Karnataka. The  alignment  takes  off  at  Kadapa  and  joins  at  Kolar  and  Kolar  to Bangarapet  (Bangalore),  17.16  Km,  the  existing  route  is  being  utilized. Latest  anticipated  cost  of  the  project  is  ₹  2473  crore.    The  status  of  the project:-

- (i) Kadapa  -  Pendlimarri  (21.30  km):  section  Commissioned  in April'2017.
- (ii) Pendlimarri-Rayachoti-Vayalpadu  (133.13  km):  Requisition  for land (1989 Acre) submitted to State Govt. of Andhra Pradesh in May'2015 & Nov'2016.  No land has been acquired by State Govt.
- (iii)   Madanapalli Rd - Madagatta (54.56 km): Detailed estimate under process.
- (iv) Madagatta - Mulbagal (8.65 km): Final location survey work has been taken up.
- (v) Mulbagal - Kolar (36.28 km): About 341.85 Acres of land is to be acquired  in  the  State  of  Karnataka  and  requisition  has  been submitted  to  Karnataka  Industrial  Areas  Development  Board (KIADB) on 07.07.17 for acquiring the land.
- (d): Till  2013-14,  due  to  overall  limited  availability  of  funds,  most  of  the projects  were  not  progressing  satisfactorily.  Since  2014-15,  based  on physical progress of projects, last mile connectivity projects and projects for  decongesting  the  existing  routes  have  been  given  sufficient  funds. Accordingly, land acquisition details are being submitted to state Government. However, the completion of railway projects requires clearances  from  various  departments  of  State  Government  and  Central Ministries  like  acquisition  of  land,  statutory  clearances  like  forestry  and wild life  clearances, cutting of trees, shifting of services, construction of road  over  bridges  and  road  under  bridges  by  road  maintaining  agencies, NOC from State Irrigation Department and Power Corporations, law & order issues etc., which are beyond the control of Ministry of Railways.  Therefore,  it  is  not  feasible  to  fix  time  lines  for  completion  of these projects.
- (e)   Indian  Railways  have  taken  various  initiatives  to  increase  pace  of execution of projects. This includes-
-  Indian Railway has sanctioned about 12,690 Km of Doubling/3 rd & 4 th   line  to  overcome  the  problem  of  Congestion  over  high  density network in last three years i.e. 2015-16, 2016-17 & 2017-18.
-  Making higher fund allotment for projects. The capital expenditure for railways has been increased from ₹ 58,718 Cr in 201415 to around ₹ 93,795 Cr in 2015-16 to ₹ 1,11,661 crore in 2016-17 and a plan size of ₹ 1,31,000 crore has been kept for 2017-18.
-  Ministry of Railways have embarked upon cooperative federalism  by  giving  active  representation  to  States  in  planning,

development, financing and implementation of Railway projects through formation of State Joint Ventures (State JVs).  Joint Venture agreement  has  already  been  signed  with  nine  states  (Chhattisgarh, Gujarat,  Kerala,  Odisha,  Maharashtra,  Haryana,  Andhra  Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand).  The Joint Venture agreement with State Govt. of Karnataka already exists.  Institutional financing by tying up loan with M/s Life Insurance Corporation of India Limited for ₹ 1.5 lakh crore for assured funding of viable projects has increased Railway's capacity for committed fund provision for essential projects.

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