Lok Sabha Question No. 2755 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-11
Subject: Connecting New Rail Routes
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Shri Rakesh Rathor

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2755 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.12.2024

## CONNECTING NEW RAIL ROUTES

†2755 . SHRI RAKESH RATHOR :

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to State:

- (a) whether the  Government proposes or  would  consider  to  make  the rail journey from other States to Uttar Pradesh easy and connect the State with new railway routes;
- (b) whether the Government proposes to connect the other remaining districts  of  Uttar  Pradesh  with  new  railway  routes  for  the  rail journey to other districts of Uttar Pradesh;
- (c) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  connect  the  most  backward assembly constituencies Seuta and Laharpur Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh with rail route and rail services to operate there;
- (d) if  so,  the  total  number  of direct trains likely to be introduced from Sitapur district; and
- (e) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

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

(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a)  to  (e)  :  Railway  projects  are  surveyed/  sanctioned/executed  Zonal Railway wise and not State wise/District wise/Constituency wise as the Railways' projects may span across State boundaries. Railway projects are sanctioned on the basis of remunerativeness, traffic projections, last mile  connectivity,  missing  links  and  alternate  routes,  augmentation  of congested/saturated lines, demands raised by State Governments,

Central Ministries, Members of Parliament, other public representatives, Railway's  own  operational  requirement,  socio-economic  considerations etc.  depending  upon  throwforward  of  ongoing  projects  and  overall availability of funds.

Railway  infrastructure  projects  falling  fully/partly  in  the  State  of  Uttar Pradesh  are  covered  under  Northern  Railway,  North  Central  Railway, North Eastern Railway, East Central Railway and West 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.

The State of Uttar Pradesh is well connected with other parts of country on  Indian  Railway  Network.  To  further  improve  the  rail  connectivity, during the last three years and the current FY 2024-25, 894 surveys (287 New Line, 14 Gauge Conversion and 593 Doubling) of a total length of 60,673 km have been sanctioned throughout the country including 107 Surveys (33 New lines and 74 Doubling) of total length 5960 km falling fully/partly in Uttar  Pradesh.

As on 01.04.2024, 68 Railway projects (16 New  Line,  03  Gauge Conversion and 49 Doubling), of total length of 5,874 Km costing ₹92,001 crore  falling  fully/partly  in  the  State  of  Uttar  Pradesh,  are  at  various stages  of  planning  and  implementation,  out  of  which  1,313  Km  length has been commissioned and an expenditure of ₹28,366 crore has been incurred upto March 2024. The status of work is summarized as under:-

| Plan Head                |   No. of projects |   Total Length (in Km) |   Length Commissioned (in Km) |   Expenditure upto March 2024 (₹in Cr) |
|--------------------------|-------------------|------------------------|-------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| New Lines                |                16 |                   1740 |                           297 |                                   8672 |
| Gauge Conversion         |                 3 |                    261 |                             0 |                                     26 |
| Doubling / Multitracking |                49 |                   3873 |                          1016 |                                  19668 |
| Total                    |                68 |                   5874 |                          1313 |                                  28366 |

Budget  allocation  for  Infrastructure  projects  and  safety  works,  falling fully/ partly in Uttar Pradesh is as under:

| Period   | Outlay                             |
|----------|------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | ₹1,109 crore/year                  |
| 2024-25  | ₹19,848 crore (More than 17 times) |

The details of commissioning / laying of  new track falling fully/partly in the State of Uttar Pradesh during 2009-14 and 2014-24 is as under :-

| Period   | New Track Commissioned   | Average Commissioning of new tracks   |
|----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | 996 Km                   | 199.2 Km/year                         |
| 2014-24  | 4,902 Km                 | 490.2 Km/year (More than 2 times)     |

Sitapur is already well connected with existing Indian Railway Network. Further,  Pt.  Seuta  and  Laharpur  are  served  by  Biswan  and  Parsendi stations located near Sitapur Jn., which is presently being served by 25 pairs  of  train  services  connecting  Sitapur  station  to  major  cities  like Delhi,  Lucknow,  Dibrugarh,  Jammu  Tawi,  Gorakhpur,  Amritsar  etc. Further,  introduction  of  new  train  services  is  an  on-going  process  on Indian  Railways  subject  to  traffic  justification,  operational  feasibility, availability of resources etc.

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