Lok Sabha Question No. 1634 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-13
Subject: Railway Zones
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: JAYADEV GALLA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1634 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13.02.2019

## RAILWAY ZONES

1634. SHRI JAYADEV GALLA:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a)  the details of the Railway Zones in the country;
- (b)  when  each of  the  above Railway Zones were created and the reasons for creating each of such zones;
- (c)  whether every new Railway Zone created fulfilled the factors like size, workload,  accessibility,  traffic  pattern,  operational  and  administrative requirements;
- (d)   if so, Zone-wise details  with statistics thereof; and
- (e) the Gross income of  each Division since its creation, division-wise and zone-wise?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(SHRI RAJEN GOHAIN)

(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  UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1634 BY SHRI JAYADEV GALLA TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 13.02.2019 REGARDING RAILWAY ZONES

(a) to (e): There are 17 Railway Zones in the country. Zones on Indian Railways are created keeping in view the factors like size, workload, accessibility, traffic patterns and  other  operational/administrative  requirements  consistent  with  the  needs  of economy and efficiency, without any regional consideration.

Earning records are not maintained division-wise. Details of all Zones, including total earnings,  zones-wise  since  last  re-organisation  of  Indian  Railways  in  2003-04,  are given below:

| S.No.                   | Zonal Railway             | Headquarter   | Year of Creation   | Number of Divisions   |   Zonal Route KM (as on 31.03.2018) |   Gross earnings since 2003-04 to 2017-18 ( ` in Crore) |
|-------------------------|---------------------------|---------------|--------------------|-----------------------|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
| 1. Central Railway      | 1. Central Railway        | Mumbai        | 1951               | 5                     |                             4114.59 |                                        128561           |
| 2. Eastern Railway      | 2. Eastern Railway        | Kolkata       | 1952               | 4                     |                             2777.16 |                                         63629.4         |
| 3. East Central Railway | Hajipur                   |               | 2002               | 5                     |                             4106.72 |                                        100423           |
| 4.                      | East Coast Railway        | Bhubaneswar   | 2003               | 3                     |                             2756.51 |                                        132843           |
| 5.                      | Northern Railway          | New Delhi     | 1952               | 5                     |                             7301.3  |                                        158781           |
| 6.                      | North Central Railway     | Allahabad     | 2003               | 3                     |                             3523.3  |                                        132222           |
| 7. North Eastern        | Railway                   | Gorakhpur     | 1952               | 3                     |                             3439.55 |                                         29245.7         |
| 8. Northeast            | Frontier Railway Guwahati |               | 1958               | 5                     |                             4136.13 |                                         42934.6         |
| 9. North                | Western Railway           | Jaipur        | 2002               | 4                     |                             5585.91 |                                         61782.2         |
| 10.                     | Southern Railway          | Chennai       | 1951               | 6                     |                             5081    |                                         77451.8         |
| 11.                     | South Central Railway     | Secunderabad  | 1966               | 6                     |                             6228.84 |                                        145641           |
| 12. South Eastern       | Railway                   | Kolkata       | 1955               | 4                     |                             2740.46 |                                        119271           |
| 13. South               | East Central Railway      | Bilaspur      | 2003               | 3                     |                             2509.73 |                                        106939           |
| 14.                     | South Western Railway     | Hubli         | 2003               | 3                     |                             3523.72 |                                         47035.5         |
| 15.                     | Western Railway           | Mumbai        | 1951               | 6                     |                             6465.26 |                                        126053           |
| 16.                     | West Central Railway      | Jabalpur      | 2003               | 3                     |                             3003.6  |                                         97975.5         |
| 17.                     | Metro Railway             | Kolkata       | 2010               | -                     |                               27.22 |                                          1735.02        |
|                         | Total                     |               |                    | 68                    |                            67321    |                                             1.57252e+06 |

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