Lok Sabha Question No. 1875 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-02-11
Subject: Electrification of Railway Lines across Country
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Thiru Thanga Tamilselvan, Smt. Vijaylakshmi Devi, Dr. Ganapathy Rajkumar P

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1875

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.02.2026

## ELECTRIFICATION OF RAILWAY LINES ACROSS COUNTRY

1875. THIRU THANGA TAMILSELVAN: DR. GANAPATHY RAJKUMAR P: SMT. VIJAYLAKSHMI DEVI:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether it is a fact that the Union Government is executing 100 per cent electrification  of  railway  line  across  the  country  particularly  broad gauge network;
- (b)  if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  present  status  of  completion pendency  of  electrification  of  railway  lines  till  date,  zone-wise  and State-wise particularly in Tamil Nadu and Bihar's Central Railway Zone;
- (c)  the  details  of  the  estimated  cost  and  total  amount  spent  on  these electrification projects during the last five years, State-wise particularly in Tamil Nadu;
- (d)  the  details  of  the  timeline  by  when  the  100  percent  electrification  of railway line be completed in Tamil Nadu; and
- (e) the pace of electrification achieved (route kilometer/RKM completed per year) in the financial years 2023-24 and 2024-25 and the target set for the financial year 2025-26?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTING AND

ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a)  to  (e)  Electrification  of  railway  network  on  Indian  Railways  (IR)  has been taken up in mission mode. So far, about 99.4% of Broad Gauge (BG) network has been electrified. The electrification in remaining network has

## been taken up. Electrification carried out during 2014-25 and before 2014 is as under:

| Period                       | Route Kilometer   |
|------------------------------|-------------------|
| Before 2014 (about 60 years) | 21,801            |
| 2014-25                      | 46,900            |

## Zone wise status of electrification is as under:

|   SN | ZONE                       | % Electrified   |
|------|----------------------------|-----------------|
|    1 | Central Railway            | 100%            |
|    2 | East Coast Railway         | 100%            |
|    3 | East Central Railway       | 100%            |
|    4 | Eastern Railway            | 100%            |
|    5 | Konkan Railway             | 100%            |
|    6 | Kolkata Metro              | 100%            |
|    7 | North Central Railway      | 100%            |
|    8 | North Eastern Railway      | 100%            |
|    9 | Northern Railway           | 100%            |
|   10 | South Central Railway      | 100%            |
|   11 | South East Central Railway | 100%            |
|   12 | South Eastern Railway      | 100%            |
|   13 | West Central Railway       | 100%            |
|   14 | Western Railway            | 100%            |
|   15 | North Western Railway      | 99%             |
|   16 | Northeast Frontier Railway | 99%             |
|   17 | Southern Railway           | 98%             |
|   18 | South Western Railway      | 96%             |

## State/UT wise status of electrification is as under:

|   SN | STATE             | % Electrified   |
|------|-------------------|-----------------|
|    1 | Andhra Pradesh    | 100%            |
|    2 | Arunachal Pradesh | 100%            |
|    3 | Bihar             | 100%            |
|    4 | Chandigarh        | 100%            |
|    5 | Chhattisgarh      | 100%            |
|    6 | Delhi             | 100%            |
|    7 | Gujarat           | 100%            |
|    8 | Haryana           | 100%            |
|    9 | Himachal Pradesh  | 100%            |
|   10 | Jammu & Kashmir   | 100%            |
|   11 | Jharkhand         | 100%            |
|   12 | Kerala            | 100%            |
|   13 | Madhya Pradesh    | 100%            |
|   14 | Maharashtra       | 100%            |
|   15 | Meghalaya         | 100%            |

SN

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

STATE

Mizoram

Nagaland

Odisha

Puducherry

Punjab

Telangana

Tripura

Uttar

Pradesh

Uttarakhand

West Bengal

Rajasthan

Assam

Tamil Nadu

Karnataka

Goa

%

Electrified

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

99%

98%

97%

97%

91%

All  new  line  /  multi-tracking  projects  are  being  sanctioned  and constructed with electrification.

During last five years (2020-21 to 2024-25), expenditure amounting to Rs. 29,826 crore has been done on railway electrification projects including Tamil Nadu.

Since 2023-24, 10,932 Rkm electrification has been done till Jan' 2026.

The  completion  of  Electrification project(s)  depends  on  various factors like forest clearances by officials of forest department, shifting of infringing utilities, statutory clearances from various authorities, geological and topographical conditions of area, law & 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. All these factors affect the completion time of the project(s).

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