Lok Sabha Question No. 128 (STARRED), answered on 2019-11-27
Subject: Rail Vikas Nigam Limited
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Sandhya Ray, Rebati Tripura

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 128 TO BE ANSWERED ON 27.11.2019

## RAIL VIKAS NIGAM LIMITED

* 128. SHRIMATI SANDHYA RAY: SHRI REBATI TRIPURA:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) has been made functional and if so, the details thereof along with its structural and financial status;

(b)  the  projects taken up by the RVNL for implementation during the last three years and the current year and the status of their implementation;

(c) whether the RVNL has achieved the objectives for which it was set up and if so, the details thereof;

(d) whether the performance of the RVNL has been very poor in executing the railway projects during the last three years; and

(e)  if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  the  reasons  therefor  along  with  the corrective steps taken/being taken by the Government in this regard?

MINISTER OF RAILWAYS AND COMMERCE & INDUSTRY

## ANSWER (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

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

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (e) OF STARRED QUESTION  NO.  128  BY  SHRIMATI  SANDHYA  RAY  AND  SHRI  REBATI TRIPURA  TO  BE  ANSWERED  IN  LOK  SABHA  ON  27.11.2019  REGARDING RAIL VIKAS NIGAM LIMITED

(a): Yes,  Sir.  Rail  Vikas  Nigam  Limited  (RVNL)  was  incorporated  as  a Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) on 24.01.2003. The company Board was formulated  in  March  2005.  The  Board  of  Directors  comprises  Chief Managing  Director  (CMD),  4  Functional  Directors,  2  Part  Time  Official Directors  from  Ministry  of  Railways  and  7  other  Part  Time  Non  Official Directors. The authorized share capital of RVNL is ` 3000 crores with the paid up share  capital  of ` 2085.02  crores.  12.16%  stake  of  company  has  been disinvested through IPO in March/April 2019  and remaining 87.84% share lies with Ministry of Railways. The detail of projects taken up by RVNL during the last three years

(b): and current year (2016-17 to 2018-19 and 2019-20) is appended.

(c): Yes,  Sir.  RVNL  has  completed  a  total  of  2932.35  km  of  doubling, 1783.22 km of gauge conversion, 360.01 km of new lines, 3762.07 km of pure  Railway  Electrification  (RE),  2029.41  km  RE  as  part  of  New  Line (NL)/Gauge  Conversion  (GC)/Doubling  (DL)  and  42.0  km  of  Metropolitan Transport  Project  (MTP).  Thus,  as  on  31.03.2019,  8879.65  km  project length  out  of  a  total  length  of  17066.62  km  of  174  sanctioned  project assigned to RVNL, have been completed. Total 76 projects have been fully completed.

As  far  as  resource  mobilization  is  concerned,  RVNL  has  set  up  6 Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) with total investment of ` 7442.64 crore, out of which, RVNL contribution is only ` 967.85 crore (13%) and balance amount has been arranged through equity of other stakeholders and debt from  financial  institutions.  Out  of  these  6  SPVs,  three  SPV  projects  are already functional and remaining three are at various stages of progress. RVNL  is  also  executing  5  projects  under  Asian  Development  Bank (ADB) loan of 500 million United States Dollar (USD) in various tranches. (d)  &  (e):        No,  Sir.  RVNL  has  been  rated  as  'Excellent'  for  last  7

consecutive years by the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE).

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## APPENDIX REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) OF STARRED QUESTION NO. 128 BY SHRIMATI SANDHYA RAY AND SHRI REBATI TRIPURA TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 27.11.2019 REGARDING RAIL VIKAS NIGAM LIMITED

|   S.No. | Name of Project                                                                           | Railway                    |   Latest Anticipated cost ( ` in Cr.) | Status                  |
|---------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|---------------------------------------|-------------------------|
|       1 | Patratu-Sonnagar 3rd line (291 Km)                                                        | East Central Railway       |                               3406.16 | Work has been taken up. |
|       2 | Bhatni-Aunrihar with Electrification (125 Km) (Excluding Indara-Mau) (116.95 Km) doubling | North Eastern Railway      |                               1177.96 | Work has been taken up. |
|       3 | Phephna-Indara, Mau- Shahganj (Excluding Indara-Mau) (150.28 Km) doubling                 | North Eastern Railway      |                               1028.95 | Work has been taken up. |
|       4 | Rajpura-Bhatinda Doubling with Electrification (172.64 Km)                                | Northern Railway           |                               1251.25 | Work has been taken up. |
|       5 | Janghai-Phaphamau doubling with Railway Electrification (RE) (46.79 Km)                   | Northern Railway           |                                357.48 | Work has been taken up. |
|       6 | Yevatmal-Nanded (206 Km) New Line (NL)                                                    | Central Railway            |                               1860    | Work has been taken up. |
|       7 | Work of shifting of Y curve Siding AT Lakhanpur Area of MCL on Deposit Basis (13 Km)      | South East Central Railway |                                204.69 | Work has been taken up. |
|       8 | Indore-Jabalpur (342 Km) NL Sanctioned as Budhni-Indore (205 Km)                          | West Central Railway       |                               7474    | Work has been taken up. |
|       9 | Railway Electrification (RE) of Wani-Pimpalkutti (66 Km)                                  | Central Railway            |                                 78.99 | Work has been taken up. |
|      10 | RE of Kasganj-Bareilly- Bhojipura-Daliganj (401 km)                                       | North Eastern Railway      |                                448.01 | Work has been taken up. |
|      11 | RE of 2nd line of Utratia- Raebareli- Amethi (126 Km)                                     | Northern Railway           |                                 63.32 | Work has been taken up. |
|      12 | RE of Raebareli- Unchahar RE Including                                                    | Northern Railway           |                                 44.92 | Work has been taken up. |

| S.No.   | Name of Project                                                                               | Railway               | Latest Anticipated cost ( ` in Cr.)   | Status                  |
|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------|---------------------------------------|-------------------------|
|         | Dalmau-Daryapur Section (63 RKM/70TKM)                                                        |                       |                                       |                         |
| 13.     | RE of Villupuram- Cuddalore Port- Mayiladuturai- Thanjavur&Mayiladuturai -Thiruvarur (228 Km) | Southern Railway      | 329.85                                | Work has been taken up. |
| 14.     | RE of Yelehanka- Penukonda 2nd line (121 Km)                                                  | South Western Railway | 66.96                                 | Completed               |
| 15.     | RE of Chikjajur-Bellary (184 Km)                                                              | South Western Railway | 244.23                                | Work has been taken up. |
| 16.     | RE of Bengaluru-Omalur via Hosur (196 Km)                                                     | South Western Railway | 227.91                                | Work has been taken up. |
| 17.     | RE of Guna-Gwalior (227 Km)                                                                   | West Central Railway  | 190.63                                | Work has been taken up. |
| 18.     | RE of Sambalpur- Titlagarh (112.33 RKM) Railway Electrification                               | East Coast Railway    | 68.9                                  | Work has been taken up. |
| 19.     | Latur-Setting up of Coach Manufacturing Factory                                               | Central Railway       | 497.47                                | Work has been taken up. |
| 20.     | Gaya-Setting up of new memu car shed for maintaining 30 rakes of 16 Coaches                   | East Central Railway  | 97.85                                 | Work has been taken up. |
| 21.     | Ranaghat (EMU Car Shed)-Inspection bay for 15 Coach maintenance facilities                    | Eastern Railway       | 39.13                                 | Work has been taken up. |
| 22.     | Jheel siding Coaching Depot-Infrastructure development                                        | Eastern Railway       | 63.77                                 | Work has been taken up. |
| 23.     | Kanpur-construction of memu car shed                                                          | North Central Railway | 92.71                                 | Work has been taken up. |
| 24.     | Setting up of Coach periodic overhauling and rehabilitation workshop at Jhansi                | North Central Railway | 454.89                                | Work has been taken up. |
| 25.     | Saidpur Bhitri-setting UP                                                                     | North                 | 96.46                                 | Work has been taken     |

| S.No.   | Name of Project                                                                                  | Railway               | Latest Anticipated cost ( ` in Cr.)   | Status                  |
|---------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------|---------------------------------------|-------------------------|
|         | of electric loco shed to home 200 locos                                                          | Eastern Railway       |                                       | up.                     |
| 26.     | Setting UP of Coach periodic overhauling and rehabilitation workshop at Sonipat                  | Northern Railway      | 535                                   | Work has been taken up. |
| 27.     | Extension of MMTS PH-II from Ghatkesar to Raigir (Yadadri)                                       | South Central Railway | 412.26                                | Work has been taken up. |
| 28.     | Daraganj-Rebuilding (Bridge No.111 on Ganga)                                                     | North Eastern Railway | 348.86                                | Work has been taken up. |
| 29.     | Setting UP of Centralised Training Institute for IRSME & IRSS Officers AT Lucknow                | North Eastern Railway | 74.55                                 | Work has been taken up. |
| 30.     | Lallaguda (Carriage Workshop)-Replacement of 100 year old administrative building                | South Central Railway | 4.88                                  | Work has been taken up. |
| 31.     | Dhasa-Jetalsar-Subways in lieu of level crossing- 35 nos.                                        | Western Railway       | 93.51                                 | Work has been taken up. |
| 32.     | Sabarmati-Botad- subways in lieu of level crossings-23 nos.                                      | Western Railway       | 54.75                                 | Work has been taken up. |
| 33.     | Sabarmati-Botad- subways in lieu of LCs- 14 Nos.                                                 | Western Railway       | 33.33                                 | Work has been taken up. |
| 34.     | New crossing station between Umdanagar- Timmarpur stations of Secunderabad- Mahabubnagar section | South Central Railway | 21.95                                 | Work has been taken up. |
| 35.     | Final location survey for new line connectivity to Char Dham (327 Km)                            | Northern Railway      | 120.92                                | Work has been taken up. |

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