Lok Sabha Question No. 2768 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-17
Subject: Expenditures of Railways
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Smt. Bharti Pardhi, Dr. Shrikant Eknath Shinde, Shri Ravindra Dattaram Waikar, Shri Vishaldada Prakashbapu Patil, Shri Naresh Ganpat Mhaske, Shri Shrirang Appa Chandu Barne

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2768 TO BE ANSWERED ON 17.12.2025

## EXPENDITURES OF RAILWAYS

2768.  DR. SHRIKANT EKNATH SHINDE:

SHRI RAVINDRA DATTARAM WAIKAR:

SMT. BHARTI PARDHI:

SHRI SHRIRANG APPA CHANDU BARNE:

SHRI VISHALDADA PRAKASHBAPU PATIL:

SHRI NARESH GANPAT MHASKE:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the Budget Estimate, Revised Estimate and Actual Expenditure  of  Indian  Railways  during  the  last  three  financial years including current financial year, zone-wise;
- (b) whether  funds  earmarked  for  safety  works  and  track  renewal have  been fully  utilised  during  the  current  financial  year  and  if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons for underutilisation;
- (c) the total railway land identified for monetisation and the revenue generated through land monetisation during the last three financial years, zone-wise;
- (d) whether  any  land  monetisation  projects  are  pending  due  to issues  related  to  State  Government  permissions  or  local  body approvals and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the  details  of  the  measures  taken  to  enhance  non-fare revenue and reduce dependence on budgetary support for capital projects aligning with financial sustainability goals?

## ANSWER

(f)

## MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTING AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a) & (b):  Details of Earnings and Expenditure of Indian Railways since 2022-23 is as under:

(Rs. in crore)

|                                 | 2022-23   | 2023-24   | 2024-25   |
|---------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Total Revenue                   | 2,40,177  | 2,56,094  | 2,65,678  |
| Total Expenditure               | 2,37,660  | 2,52,834  | 2,63,018  |
| Surplus (Net Revenue)           | 2,517     | 3,260     | 2,660     |
| Total Capex (Budgetary Sources) | 1,62,658  | 2,45,592  | 2,54,312  |

Railway wise details of Total Earnings and Total Expenditure are available  in  Annual  Statistical  Statement  of  Indian  Railways  which  is available on website of Indian Railways (https://indianrailways.gov.in).

During  2025-26,  Rs.  1,16,514  cr.  have  been  allocated  for  Safety Related activities which includes activities for Track Renewal and Track maintenance. Utilisation upto Nov'25 is about 70%.

(c)  &  (d):        Vacant  Railway  land  not  required  by  Railway  for  its immediate  operational  needs  is  entrusted  to  Rail  Land  Development Authority  (RLDA)  for  commercial  development.  Approximately,  1308 hectares of land has been entrusted to RLDA for commercial monetization.The revenue generated by the Indian Railways from the use of land and spaces for commercial purposes during last three years has been Rs 8,209 cr.

Execution of land monetisation projects depends on many factors such  as  availability  of  proper  land  documents,  change  in  land  use, approval of plans and litigation etc., affecting the completion time.

(e):  Several steps have been taken by Indian Railways to increase Non fare Revenue through advertisement and other innovative Ideas like:

-  Advertisement through Rail Display Network (RDN) at stations.
-  Advertisement through Out of Home (OOH)
-  Advertisement on Mobile Assets like coaches and inside train.
-  Innovative  solutions  to  enhance  passengers  satisfactions  like Provision for sleeping pods, Single Brand Premium Outlet, Kiosk for providing facility for booking auto & Taxis, Providing E-Wheel chair facility  on  payment  basis,  Health  Kiosk,  Medical  store  to  sell Generic medicines.
-  Licence fee from Parking contracts
-  Land Monetisation
-  Receipts from Catering contracts

To  increase  overall  revenue,  following  measures  have  been  taken  by Indian Railways:

 To  increase  the  network  capacity,  rail  network  expansion  has  been taken up in a big way by construction of new lines, multi tracking of existing  lines  and  gauge  conversion  of existing  lines.  The  details  of new tracks laid during the 11 years are as under:

| Period   | New Tracks Commissioned   |
|----------|---------------------------|
| 2009-14  | 7,599 km                  |
| 2014-25  | 34,428 km                 |

Further as on  01.04.25,  there  are  431  (154  New  Line,  33  Gauge Conversion and 244 Doubling) projects are sanctioned. The summary of which is as under:

| Category                 |   No. of Projects | Total Length (Km)   | Length Completed till Mar'25 (Km)   | Balance length (Km)   | Cost (Cr.)   |
|--------------------------|-------------------|---------------------|-------------------------------------|-----------------------|--------------|
| New lines                |               154 | 16,142              | 3,036                               | 13,105                | 3,77,389     |
| Gauge conversion         |                33 | 4,180               | 2,997                               | 1,183                 | 43,820       |
| Doubling/ Multi tracking |               244 | 15,644              | 6,736                               | 8,909                 | 2,53,711     |
| Total                    |               431 | 35,966              | 12,769                              | 23,197                | 6,74,920     |

-  Removing bottlenecks in operations by yard remodelling, construction of bypass/chord lines, rail flyovers etc.
-  The construction of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) from Ludhiana  to  Sonnagar  (1337  Km)  and  Western  Dedicated  Freight Corridor  (WDFC)  from  Jawaharlal  Nehru  Port  Terminal  (JNPT)  to Dadri (1506 Km) has been taken up. Out of total 2843 kms, 2741 route kms (96.4%) has been commissioned and operational.
-  Indian Railways has taken up electrification of Railway lines in a mission mode. So far, about 99.1% of  Broad Gauge (BG)  network has  been  electrified.  A  comparison  of  electrification  before  and after 2014 is as follows:

| Period      | Route Kilometre   |
|-------------|-------------------|
| Before 2014 | 21,801            |
| 2014-25     | 46,900            |

- Procurement  of  Wagons  and  Locomotives:  To  increase  freight carrying capacity, large numbers of IR wagons have been procured and  locomotives  have  been  manufactured.    During  2014  to  2025, about  2  lakh  wagons  have  been  procured  and  more  than  10,000 locomotives  have  been  added  for  increasing  freight  loading  and
-  mobility.
-  Industry  participation  in  investment  in  General  Purpose  Wagons, Special  Purpose/High-Capacity  wagons  and  Automobile  carrier wagons  for  cement,  oil,  steel,  fly-ash,  automobile  etc.  So  far, around 240 rakes of special purpose wagons, 374 rakes of generalpurpose  wagons  and  48  rakes  of  automobile  wagons  have  been inducted.
-  Under the 'Gati Shakti Multi-Modal Cargo Terminal (GCT)' policy so far,  118  new  GCTs  have  been  commissioned,  with  an  estimated traffic  capacity  of  192  million  tonnes  per  annum  (MTPA).  In addition, for improvement of freight and parcel terminals from the financial  year  2023-24  onwards,  an  amount  of  ₹14,500  crore  has been allocated.
-  A  'Bulk  Cement  Terminal  Policy'  for  setting  up  terminals  on Railway  land  has  been  launched  recently  as  part  of  Railway reforms for facilitating Bulk Cement transportation.
-  Ensuring increased availability of rakes/wagons against demand.
-  Use  of  Information  Technology  in  freight  operations  to  improve monitoring and utilization of assets.
-  Induction of higher horsepower locomotives.
-  Improvement in maintenance practices of wagons and locomotives resulting  in  increased  availability  of  loco  and  rolling  stock  for traffic use.

-  Improvement  in  track  and  signalling  standards  to  carry  higher volume of traffic.
-  Training  of  staff  and  officers  to  adopt  the  new  technology  and management practices.

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