Lok Sabha Question No. 1699 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-30
Subject: Resumption of Stoppage of Trains at various Stations of Maharashtra
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Shri Bhausaheb Rajaram Wakchaure, Shri Omprakash Bhupalsinh Alias Pavan Rajenimbalkar, Shri Sanjay Uttamrao Deshmukh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1699

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.07.2025

## RESUMPTION OF STOPPAGE OF TRAINS AT VARIOUS STATIONS OF MAHARASHTRA

†1699.  SHRI BHAUSAHEB RAJARAM WAKCHAURE:

SHRI OMPRAKASH BHUPALSINH ALIAS PAVAN RAJENIMBALKAR: SHRI SANJAY UTTAMRAO DESHMUKH:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  policy  of  the  Government  with  regard  to  providing  stoppage  of trains at various railway stations of the country including Maharashtra;
- (b) the criteria set by the Government in this regard;
- (c)  whether  the  Government  has  received  any  proposals/requests  for providing stoppage of trains from various States including Maharashtra;
- (d)  if  so,  the  details  thereof  particularly  at  Osmanabad  station  and railways stations in Washim-Yavatmal and Shirdi Lok Sabha Constituencies  in  Maharashtra  along  with  the  action  taken  by  the Government in this regard;
- (e) whether the Government has also received a request for establishing railway  station  in  various  areas  of  Maharashtra  particularly  in  Barshi
- Naka area of Beed town in Beed district;
- (f) if so, the details of the action taken on these proposals so far;
- (g)  the  steps  taken/being  taken  by  the  Government  to  accept  these demands;
- (h) whether the Government proposes to establish a new railway station in Shirdi Lok Sabha Constituency, if so, the time by which it is likely to be established; and
- (i)  the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  resume  train  stoppage  at stations closed during the COVID period?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTING AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a) to (i) On Indian Railways, provision of stoppages of train services and their  rationalisation    is  dependent  on  factors  which  includes  traffic

justification, operational feasibility, importance of the station, availability of alternative services, etc.

Further,  Proposals/  requests/  suggestions/  representations,  both  formal and informal  inter  alia  for  provision  of  stoppage  of  trains  are  received from Members of Parliament, elected representatives, organizations/rail users  etc.  at  various  levels  including  Railway  Board,  Zonal  Railways, Divisional Office etc. As receipt of such proposals/ requests/ suggestions is  a  continuous and dynamic process, centralized compendium of such requests is not maintained. However, these are examined and action as found feasible and justified is taken from time to time.

Presently,  Dharashiv  (Osmanabad),  Sai  Nagar  Shirdi,    Washim  stations are being respectively served by 22, 28  and 44 train services. Besides, provision of stoppages is an ongoing process.

Beed station is being developed as a part of Ahmednagar - Beed - Parli (261.Km.) new line project. The cost of the project is Rs. 2539 crore. An expenditure  of  Rs.  2784  crore  has  been  incurred  up  to  March,  2025. Ahmednagar - Beed (168 Km.) section has been commissioned.

Further, to improve connectivity in Shirdi constituency, Rahuri -Shanishingnapur  (22  Km.)  new  line  and  Puntamba  -  Shirdi  (17  Km.) doubling projects have been sanctioned recently.

Moreover  to  improve  the  further  connectivity  in  Shirdi  constituency, following important surveys have been taken up:

|   S.No. | Name of the projects                   |   Length (in Km.) |
|---------|----------------------------------------|-------------------|
|       1 | Nashik-Sainagar Shirdi New Double Line |                95 |
|       2 | Nasik Road-Shirdi via Sinnar new line  |                83 |
|       3 | Rahuri-Shani Shingnapur new line       |                25 |
|       4 | Rahuri-Shani Shingnapur Doubling       |                21 |

As on 01.04.2025, 38 projects (11 New Lines, 02 Gauge Conversions and 25 Doubling), of total length of 5,098 Km, costing ₹89,780 crore falling fully/partly in Maharashtra are sanctioned, out of which 2360 km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of ₹39,407 crore has been incurred upto March, 2025. The status of work is summarized as under:-

| Plan Head                 |   No. of projects |   Total Length (in Km) |   Length Commissioned (in Km) |   Expenditure upto March 2025 (₹ in Cr) |
|---------------------------|-------------------|------------------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
| New Lines                 |                11 |                   1355 |                           234 |                                   10504 |
| Gauge Conversion          |                 2 |                    609 |                           334 |                                    4286 |
| Doubling / Multitracki ng |                25 |                   3134 |                          1792 |                                   24617 |
| Total                     |                38 |                   5098 |                          2360 |                                   39407 |

Budget  allocation  for  Infrastructure  projects  and  safety  works,  falling fully/ partly in the state of Maharashtra is as under:

| Period   | Outlay                           |
|----------|----------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | ₹1,171 crore/year                |
| 2025-26  | ₹23,778 Cr. (more than 20 times) |

The details of commissioning / laying of  new track falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra during 2009-14 and 2014-25 is as under :-

| Period   | New Track Commissioned   | Average Commissioning of new tracks   |
|----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | 292 Km                   | 58.4 Km/year                          |
| 2014-25  | 2292 Km                  | 208.36 km per year (Nearly 4 times)   |

Details of some of the recently completed projects falling fully/partly in Maharashtra are as under:

|   S.No. | Project                                     |   Cost (₹ in crore) |
|---------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------|
|       1 | Jabalpur-Gondia Gauge Conversion (300 Km)   |                2005 |
|       2 | Chhindwara-Nagpur Gauge Conversion (150 Km) |                1512 |
|       3 | Panvel-Pen Doubling (35 Km)                 |                 263 |
|       4 | Panvel-Roha Doubling (75 Km)                |                  31 |

|   5 | Pen-Roha Doubling (40 Km)            |   330 |
|-----|--------------------------------------|-------|
|   6 | Udhna-Jalgaon Doubling (307 Km)      |  2448 |
|   7 | Mudkhed-Parbhani Doubling (81 Km)    |   673 |
|   8 | Bhusawal - Jalgaon 3 rd Line (24 Km) |   325 |
|   9 | Jalgaon-Bhusawal 4th line (24 Km)    |   261 |
|  10 | Daund-Gulbarga Doubling (225 Km)     |  3182 |

Some of the projects falling fully/partly in Maharashtra which have been taken up are as under:-

|   S.No. | Project                                                                                         |   Cost (₹ in crore) |
|---------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------|
|       1 | Ahmednagar-Beed-Parle Vaijnath New Line (261 Km)                                                |                4957 |
|       2 | Baramati-Lonand New Line (64 Km)                                                                |                1844 |
|       3 | Wardha-Nanded New Line (284 Km)                                                                 |                3445 |
|       4 | Dighi Port-Roha New Line (34 Km)                                                                |                 725 |
|       5 | Solapur-tuljapur-Osmanabad New Line (84 Km)                                                     |                2933 |
|       6 | Dhule (Borvihir) - Nardana New Line (51 Km)                                                     |                1171 |
|       7 | Kalyan-Murbad New Line (28 Km)                                                                  |                 836 |
|       8 | Manmad-Indore New Line (309 Km)                                                                 |               16321 |
|       9 | Wadsa-Gadchiroli New Line (52 Km)                                                               |                1886 |
|      10 | Jalna and Jalgaon New Line (174 Km)                                                             |                5804 |
|      11 | Pachora-Jamner with extension upto Malkapur Gauge Conversion (84 Km)                            |                2094 |
|      12 | Ratlam-Mhow-Khandwa-Akola and MM of Fatehabad-Chandrawati Ganj-Ujjain Gauge Conversion (525 Km) |                6384 |
|      13 | Kalyan-Kasara 3rd line (68 Km)                                                                  |                1436 |
|      14 | Wardha (Sewagram)-Nagpur 3rd line (76 Km)                                                       |                 698 |
|      15 | Wardha-Ballarshah 3rd line (132 Km)                                                             |                1385 |
|      16 | Itarsi-Nagpur 3rd line (280 Km)                                                                 |                2450 |

|   17 | Pune-Miraj-Londa Doubling (466 Km)                        |   6463 |
|------|-----------------------------------------------------------|--------|
|   18 | Daund-Manmad Doubling (236 Km)                            |   3037 |
|   19 | Manmad-Jalgaon 3rd line (160 Km)                          |   1677 |
|   20 | Wardha-Nagpur 4th line (79 Km)                            |   1137 |
|   21 | Kazipet -Ballarshah 3 rd Line (202 Km)                    |   3183 |
|   22 | Mudkhed - Medchal & Mahbubnagar - Dhone Doubling (417 Km) |   4686 |
|   23 | Rajnandgaon-Nagpur 3rd line (228 Km)                      |   3545 |
|   24 | Hotgi-Kudgi-Gadag Doubling (284 Km)                       |   2459 |
|   25 | Aurangabad - Ankai Doubling (98 Km)                       |    961 |
|   26 | Parbhani- Parli Vaijanath Doubling (65 Km)                |    770 |
|   27 | Jalgaon-Manmad 4th Line (160 Km)                          |   2574 |
|   28 | Bhusawal-Khandwa 3rd & 4th Line (131 Km)                  |   3285 |

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