Lok Sabha Question No. 2262 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-12
Subject: Swamihalli to Rayadurga Broad Gauge Railway Line
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Shri E Tukaram

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2262

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 12.03.2025

## SWAMIHALLI TO RAYADURGA BROAD GAUGE RAILWAY LINE

## 2262.  SHRI E TUKARAM:

Will the Minister of  RAILWAYS  be pleased to state:

- (a) the current status  of  the  Final  Location  Survey  (FLS)  work  for the proposed new Broad Gauge (BG) railway line from Swamihalli  of  Sandur  Taluk  (Bellary  District)  to  Rayadurga (Andhra Pradesh) via Molakalmuru including the progress achieved so far; and
- (b) the details of the timeline for the completion of FLS work along with  the  tentative  date  for  the  commencement  of  physical construction work at the project site?

## ANSWER

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

(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a) and (b):  Railway projects are surveyed/ sanctioned/executed Zonal Railway wise and not State-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, socioeconomic considerations etc. depending upon throwforward of ongoing projects and overall availability of funds.

Final Location Survey (FLS) between Swamihalli - Rayadurga new line (52  Km)  has  been  sanctioned.  Molakalmuru  is  already  connected  to Rayadurga.

After  firming  up  of  Detailed  Project  Report  (DPR),  sanctioning  of project  requires  consultation  with  various  stake-holders  including State  Governments  and  necessary  approvals  viz.  appraisal  of  NITI Aayog,  Ministry  of  Finance  etc.  As  sanctioning  of  projects  is  a continuous and dynamic process, exact timelines cannot be fixed.

As on 01.04.2024, 31 projects (21 new lines, and 10 Doubling) of total length  of  3,840  Km,  costing  ₹47,016  crore,  falling  fully/partly  in  the State of Karnataka, are at various stages of planning and implementation, out of which 1,302 Km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of  ₹17,383 crore has  been incurred

## upto March, 2024. The summary is as under:-

| Category                |   No. of projects |   Total Length (in Km) |   Length Commissioned (in Km) |   Expenditure upto March 2024 (₹ in Cr.) |
|-------------------------|-------------------|------------------------|-------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
| New Line                |                21 |                   2556 |                           395 |                                     7592 |
| Doubling/ Multitracking |                10 |                   1284 |                           907 |                                     9791 |
| Total                   |                31 |                   3840 |                          1302 |                                    17383 |

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 climate conditions etc.

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