Lok Sabha Question No. 152 (STARRED), answered on 2025-07-30
Subject: Compensation to Farmers/Land Owners
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Shri Murari Lal Meena

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 152 TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.07.2025

## COMPENSATION TO FARMERS/LAND OWNERS

†*152.   SHRI MURARI LAL MEENA:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the quantum of land acquired for Budhni to Indore new broad gauge line project and the amount of compensation disbursed so far;
- (b) whether any disparities/discrepancies have been noticed in the process of land acquisition and compensation disbursement, if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the  details  of  the  action  taken  to  remove  these  discrepancies till  date  and  the  number  of  cases  of  farmers/land  owners  still pending; and
- (d) the time by when the compensation is likely to be disbursed to the remaining farmers and the action plan if any, made thereof?

## ANSWER

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

(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

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

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STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (d)  OF  LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 152 TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.07.2025

(a)  to  (d):  The new line project between Indore - Budni (205 Km) has been  sanctioned  at  a  cost  of  ₹3262  crore.  This  project  has  been notified as a 'Special Railway Project'.

The  project  alignment  passes  through  Indore,  Dewas  and  Sehore districts of Madhya Pradesh. An expenditure of ₹1627 crore has been incurred  upto  June-2025  for  the  project  and  an  outlay  of  ₹555  crore has been allocated for the year 2025-26. The work has been taken up in this project.

This  project  involves  acquisition  of  1438  Ha  of  land  that  includes 1268  Ha  of  Private  land  and  170  Ha  of  Government  land.  Award  for total  land  of  1438  Ha  has  been  passed  by  Competent  Authority  for Land Acquisition (CALA) out of which possession of 1269 Ha land has been given  to  Railways.  Total  compensation  of  amount  for  this  land acquisition has been assessed by CALA as ₹721 crore. This compensation  amount  for  land  acquisition  has  been  deposited  by Railways. Disbursement  of compensation  amount  to the project affected persons is being carried out by State Government authorities.

Railway acquires land through concerned State/District Authorities. All the  activities  in  connection  with  land  acquisition  like  assessment  of amount of compensation to land losers etc. are under purview of the State Government.

Compensation for land acquisition is made  to the  land  losers by  the Revenue  Department  of  the  State  Government  after  demanding  the same from Railways.  The process is undertaken  in  coordination  with

state  governments,  following  the  provisions  of  the  Right  to  Fair Compensation  and  Transparency  in  Land  Acquisition,  Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.

Railway  infrastructure  projects  falling  fully/partly  in  the  State  of Madhya  Pradesh  are  covered  under  North  Central  Railway,  West Central  Railway,  East  Central  Railway,  Western  Railway,  Central Railway, South Central Railway and South East Central Railway zones of  Indian  Railways.  Zonal  Railway  wise  details  of  Railway  projects including  cost,  expenditure  and  outlay  are  made  available  in  public domain on Indian Railway's website.

As  on  01.04.2025,  24  Railway  projects  (08  New  Lines,  02  Gauge Conversion  and  14  Doubling),  of  total  length  of  4,740  Km  costing ₹89,543 crore falling fully/partly in the State of Madhya Pradesh, are at various stages of planning and implementation, out of which 2,092 Km length  has  been  commissioned  and  an  expenditure  of  ₹41,401  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                |                 8 | 1914                   | 544                           | 15069                                   |
| Gauge Conversion         |                 2 | 809                    | 430                           | 6766                                    |
| Doubling / Multitracking |                14 | 2017                   | 1118                          | 19566                                   |
| Total                    |                28 | 4,740                  | 2,092                         | 41,401                                  |

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

| Period   | Outlay                             |
|----------|------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | ₹632 crore/year                    |
| 2025-26  | ₹14,745 crore (More than 23 times) |

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

| Period   | New Track Commissioned   | Average Commissioning of new tracks   |
|----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | 145 Km                   | 29 Km/year                            |
| 2014-25  | 2651 Km                  | 241 Km/year (More than 8 times)       |

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

|   S.No. | Name of Project                                  |   Latest Cost (₹ in Crores) |
|---------|--------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|
|       1 | Guna- Etawah New Line (348 Km)                   |                         683 |
|       2 | Jabalpur-Gondia Gauge Conversion (300 Km)        |                        2005 |
|       3 | Chhindwara-Nagpur Gauge Conversion (150 Km)      |                        1512 |
|       4 | Chhindwara-Mandla Fort Gauge Conversion (182 Km) |                        1268 |
|       5 | Khodri - Anuppur Doubling (62 Km)                |                         489 |
|       6 | Itarsi-Budhni 3rd line (25 Km)                   |                         286 |
|       7 | Bhopal-Bina 3rd line (145 km)                    |                        1075 |
|       8 | Barkhera-Habibganj 3rd line (41 km)              |                         473 |

|   9. | Pendra Road-Anuppur 3rd line (50 Km)                     |   394 |
|------|----------------------------------------------------------|-------|
|   10 | Bina-Kota Doubling (283 km)                              |  2477 |
|   11 | Nimach-Chittaurgarh Doubling (56 Km)                     |   560 |
|   12 | Khodri-Anuppur Doubling with flyover at Bilaspur (72 Km) |   792 |
|   13 | Budhni-Barkhera 3rd line (27 Km)                         |  1703 |
|   14 | Indore-Ujjain Doubling (79 Km)                           |   757 |
|   15 | Anuppur-Katni 3rd line (165 Km)                          |  2311 |
|   16 | Ramna-Singrauli doubling (160 Km)                        |  2436 |
|   17 | Karaila Road- Shaktinagar Doubling(32 Km)                |   763 |

## Some of the main projects falling fully/partly in Madhya Pradesh which have been taken up are as under:

|   S. No | Project                                                                                   |   Cost (₹ in Crores) |
|---------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------|
|       1 | Manmad-Indore New Line (309 Km) (Excluding Dhule-Nardana (51 Km) - Sanctioned separately) |                16320 |
|       2 | Ramganjmandi-Bhopal New Line (189 Km)                                                     |                 5073 |
|       3 | Indore-Budni New Line (198 Km)                                                            |                 7474 |
|       4 | Lalitpur-Satna, Rewa-Singrauli & Mahoba- Khajuraho New Line (541 Km)                      |                 8914 |
|       5 | Dahod-Indore New Line (205 Km)                                                            |                 4095 |
|       6 | Chhota Udepur-Dhar New Line (147 Km)                                                      |                 1794 |

|   7. | Nimach-Badi Sadri New Line (48 Km)                                    |   495 |
|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|-------|
|    8 | Gwalior-Sheopurkalan Gauge Conversion with extension to Kota (284 Km) |  2913 |
|    9 | Ratlam-Akola Gauge Conversion (525 Km)                                |  6384 |
|   10 | Itarsi- Nagpur 3rd line (280 Km)                                      |  2450 |
|   11 | Jhansi-Bina 3rd line (153 Km)                                         |  2002 |
|   12 | Mathura-Jhansi 3rd line (274 Km)                                      |  5924 |
|   13 | Jhansi- Manikpur & Khirar-Bhimsen Doubling (431 Km)                   |  4330 |
|   14 | Katni - Bina 3rd line (260 Km)                                        |  3138 |
|   15 | Katni- Grade separator / Bypass (35 Km)                               |  2300 |
|   16 | Katni- Singrauli Doubling (257 Km)                                    |  4377 |
|   17 | Satna-Rewa Doubling (50 Km)                                           |   590 |
|   18 | Nimach-Ratlam Doubling (133 Km)                                       |  1096 |
|   19 | Bhusawal-Khandwa 3rd & 4th Line (131 Km)                              |  3285 |

Completion of Railway project/s depends on various factors like quick land acquisition by State Government, forest clearance by officials of forest department, shifting of infringing utilities, statutory clearances from  various  authorities,  geological  and  topographical  conditions  of area, law and order situation in the area of project/s site, number of working  months  in  a  year  for  particular  project  site  etc.  All  these factors affect the completion time and cost of the project/s.

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