Lok Sabha Question No. 3797 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-18
Subject: Status of Running Railway Projects
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Shri Adhikari Deepak Dev

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3797

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 18.12.2024

## STATUS OF RUNNING RAILWAY PROJECTS

## 3797.   SHRI ADHIKARI DEEPAK DEV:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of ongoing railway projects in the State of West Bengal;
- (b) the latest status of running projects as on 31.10.2024; and
- (c) the details of the the number of projects out of the running projects during  the period 2004 to 2009 Railway Budget?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTIONG AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

## (SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a) to (c): Railway projects are sanctioned/executed Zonal Railway wise and not State-wise/District/Constituency-wise as the Railways' projects may span across State/District/Constituency boundaries.

Railway Infrastructure Projects falling fully/partly in the State of West Bengal are  covered  under  Eastern  Railway  (ER),  South  Eastern  Railway  (SER)  and Northeast  Frontier  Railway  (NFR)  Zones  of  Indian  Railways.  Zonal  Railway wise details of Railway projects including cost, expenditure and outlay are made available in public domain.

As on 01.04.2024, 43 projects (13 New Lines, 04 Gauge Conversions and 26 Doubling), of total length of 4479  Km,  costing ₹60,168 crore falling fully/partly  in  the  State  of  West  Bengal  including  those  which  are  in planning/approval/construction stage, out of which, 1655 km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of ₹20,434 crore has been incurred upto March, 2024.  The summary is as under:-

| Category                 |   No. of project s |   Total Length (in Km) |   Length Commissioned till March, 2024 (in Km) |   Total Exp. upto March, 2024 (Rs. in Cr.) |
|--------------------------|--------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
| New Lines                |                 13 |                   1087 |                                            322 |                                       9774 |
| Gauge Conversion         |                  4 |                   1201 |                                            854 |                                       3663 |
| Doubling/Multi- tracking |                 26 |                   2192 |                                            479 |                                       6997 |
| Total                    |                 43 |                   4479 |                                           1655 |                                      20434 |

The details of outlay for infrastructure projects falling fully/partly in the State of West Bengal is as under:-

| Period   | Outlay                             |
|----------|------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | Rs. 4,380 Cr./year                 |
| 2024-25  | Rs. 13,941 Cr. (More than 3 times) |

Execution of important infrastructure projects falling fully/partly in the State of  West  Bengal  is  held  up  due  to  delay  in  land  acquisition.  Status  of  land acquisition in West Bengal is as under:

| Total Land required for Projects in West Bengal   | 3040 Ha       |
|---------------------------------------------------|---------------|
| Land Acquired                                     | 640 Ha (21%)  |
| Balance Land to be acquired                       | 2400 Ha (79%) |

Details of some major projects which are delayed due to land acquisition are as under:-

|   S N | Name of the project                            |   Total land require d (in Ha) |   Land acquire d (in Ha) |   Balance Land to be acquired (in Ha) |
|-------|------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|     1 | Nabadwipghat-Nabadwipdham New Line (10 Km)     |                         106.86 |                     0.17 |                                106.69 |
|     2 | Chandaneshwar-Jaleswar new line (41 Km)        |                         158    |                     0    |                                158    |
|     3 | Naihati-Ranaghat-3 rd line (36 Km)             |                          87.83 |                     0.09 |                                 87.74 |
|     4 | Balurghat-Hilli new line (30 km)               |                         156.38 |                    67.38 |                                 88    |
|     5 | Byepass at Sainthia (5 Km) & Sitarampur (7 Km) |                          22.28 |                     2.22 |                                 20.06 |

The completion of any Railway project depends on various factors like quick land acquisition by State Government, forest clearance by officials of forest department, deposition  of  cost  share  by  State  Government  in  cost  sharing projects,  priority  of  projects,  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  due  to climatic conditions etc.

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