Lok Sabha Question No. 4349 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-03-18
Subject: Lalitpur-Singrauli Rail Project
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Dr. Rajesh Mishra

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## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4349 TO BE ANSWERED ON 18.03.2026

## LALITPUR-SINGRAULI RAIL PROJECT

## †4349. DR. RAJESH MISHRA:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the amount allocated for Lalitpur Singrauli rail line during the financial year 2026-27;
- (b) the current status of acquisition of the remaining land falling along the route of this project and the approval from the forest department;
- (c) whether the process of providing adequate compensation and employment  to  the  farmers  affected  by  land  acquisition  has  been completed and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the present status of the rule regarding provision of employment in lieu of land acquisition?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTING AND

## ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

(SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

- (a) to  (d):  Railway  has  taken  up  construction  of  Lalitpur-Satna-RewaSingrauli  (541  km)  new  line  project  at  a  cost  of  ₹  8914  crore.  An expenditure of ₹5252 Cr has been incurred upto March-2025 and an outlay of ₹1713 crore has been given for the year 2025-26.  Out of the total 541 km length, 301 km length has been commissioned. Status of the project is as under:
- (A) Lalitpur - Khajuraho - Mahoba (229 km): Commissioned.
- (B) Khajuraho-Panna (72 km): The status of the section is as under:

| Activity         | Status                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Land Acquisition |  77 Ha out of total scope of 91 Ha govt. land has been acquired.  264 Ha out of total scope of 301 Ha private land has been acquired.  Acquisition of remaining land including 259 Ha forest land has been taken up. |
| Major Bridges    | There are total 27 Major bridges, Work has been taken up.                                                                                                                                                               |
| ROBs             | There are total 3 ROBs, Work has been taken up.                                                                                                                                                                         |
| RUBs             | There are total 34 RUBs, Work has been taken up.                                                                                                                                                                        |
| Station Building | There are total 6 station buildings, work has been taken up.                                                                                                                                                            |

## (C) Satna-Panna (74 km): 30 km out of 74 km between Nagod - Satna has been commissioned and work has been taken up in the remaining section. Status is as under:

| Activity         | Status                                                                  |
|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Land Acquisition | Completed                                                               |
| Major Bridges    | 5 out of 11 have been completed and work has been taken up in balance.  |
| ROBs             | 2 out of 3 have been completed and work has been taken up in balance.   |
| RUBs             | 30 out of 39 have been completed and work has been taken up in balance. |
| Station Building | 3 out of 4 have been completed and work has been taken up in balance.   |

## (D) Rewa-Sidhi (87 km): 42 km out of 87 km between Reva - Rampur Naikin has  been  commissioned  and  work  has  been  taken  up  in  the  remaining section. Status is as under:

| Activity         | Status                                                                  |
|------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Land Acquisition | Completed                                                               |
| Major Bridges    | 13 out of 16 have been completed and work has been taken up in balance. |
| ROBs             | 3 out of 13 have been completed and work has been taken up in balance.  |

| RUBs             | All 43 RUBs have been completed.            |
|------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| Tunnels          | All 4 Tunnels have been completed.          |
| Station Building | All 6 Station Building have been completed. |

## (E) Sidhi-Singrauli (77.5 km): The status of the section is as under:

| Activity         | Status                                                                                                                                                                          |
|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Land Acquisition |  Acquisition of private and forest land has been completed.  92 Ha out of total scope of 130 Ha govt. land has been acquired. Acquisition for balance land has been taken up. |
| Major Bridges    | There are total 13 Major Bridges and work has taken up.                                                                                                                         |
| ROBs             | There are total 25 ROBs and work has taken up.                                                                                                                                  |
| RUBs             | 7 out of 31 RUBs completed and work has been taken up in balance.                                                                                                               |
| Station Building | 1 out of 4 station building has been completed and work has been taken up in balance.                                                                                           |

For a Railway project, Railway acquires land through concerned State/District Authorities. All the activities in connection with land acquisition like assessment of amount of compensation to land losers, etc. are under purview of the State Government.

Compensation  for  land  acquisition  is  made  to  the  land  losers  by  the Revenue Department of the State Government after demanding the same from  Railways.   The  process  is  undertaken  in  coordination  with  state governments, following the provisions of the Railway Act, 1989.

As per existing provisions, now a lumpsum payment of Rs. 5 Lakhs to the families affected in land acquisition is being given.

## Madhya Pradesh

Railway Budget:

Budget allocation  in  the  recent  years  has  increased  significantly.  Budget allocation for Infrastructure projects and safety works, falling fully/partly in the State of Madhya Pradesh is as under:

| Period   | Outlay                             |
|----------|------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | ₹632 crore/year                    |
| 2025-26  | ₹14,745 crore (More than 23 times) |

Track Construction:

The  details  of  constructing  new  track  falling  fully/partly  in  the  State  of Madhya Pradesh during 2009-14 and 2014-25 is as under:

| Period   | New Track Commissioned   | Average Commissioning of new tracks   |
|----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | 145 Km                   | 29 Km/year                            |
| 2014-25  | 2651 Km                  | 241 Km/year (More than 8 times)       |

Project Sanctioned:

As on 01.04.2025, 24 projects (08 New Lines, 02 Gauge Conversion and 14 Doubling),  of  total  length  of  4,740  Km,  costing  ₹89,542  crore  falling fully/partly in Madhya Pradesh are sanctioned. The summary is as under:

| Category                 |   No. of project s | Total Length (in Km)   | Length Commissione d (in Km)   | Expenditure (₹ in Cr)   |
|--------------------------|--------------------|------------------------|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
| New Lines                |                  8 | 1914                   | 544                            | 15069                   |
| Gauge Conversion         |                  2 | 809                    | 430                            | 6766                    |
| Doubling / Multitracking |                 14 | 2017                   | 1118                           | 19566                   |
| Total                    |                 24 | 4,740                  | 2,093                          | 41,401                  |

Zone-wise/year-wise  details  of  all  Railway  projects  are  made  available  in public domain on Indian Railway's website.

Recently completed projects:

Details of some of the recently completed projects falling fully/partly in the State of Madhya Pradesh are as under:

|   S.No. | Name of Project                                                      |   Latest Cost (₹ in Crores) |
|---------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|
|       1 | Anuppur-Katni 3rd line (165 Km)                                      |                        2311 |
|       2 | Pendra Road-Anuppur 3rd line (50 Km)                                 |                         394 |
|       3 | Khodri-Anuppur Doubling with flyover at Bilaspur (72 Km)             |                         792 |
|       4 | Bhopal-Bina 3rd line (145 km)                                        |                        1075 |
|       5 | Bina-Kota Doubling (283 km)                                          |                        2477 |
|       6 | Jabalpur-Gondia Gauge Conversion including Balaghat-Katangi (300 Km) |                        2005 |
|       7 | Chhindwara-Nagpur Gauge Conversion (150 Km)                          |                        1512 |
|       8 | Chhindwara-Mandla Fort Gauge Conversion (182 Km)                     |                        1268 |
|       9 | Ghat Pindari-Balkheda Doubling (6 Km)                                |                          29 |
|      10 | Guna-Ruthiyai Doubling (20 Km)                                       |                         175 |
|      11 | Jukhei Chord line, Bye Passing the Katni Yard (2 Km)                 |                          12 |
|      12 | Sontalai-Bagratawa Doubling (7 Km)                                   |                         110 |
|      13 | Itarsi-Budhni 3rd line (25 Km)                                       |                         286 |
|      14 | Teegaon-Chichonda Ghat Section 3 rd line (17 Km)                     |                         176 |
|      15 | Barkhera-Bhopal 3rd line (41 km)                                     |                         473 |
|      16 | Nagda-Ujjain Doubling of Gambhir Bridge (2 Km)                       |                          28 |
|      17 | Nimach-Chittaurgarh Doubling (56 Km)                                 |                         560 |
|      18 | Budhni-Barkhera 3rd line (27 Km)                                     |                        1703 |
|      19 | Indore-Dewas-Ujjain Doubling (79 Km)                                 |                         757 |
|      20 | Powerkheda-Jujharpur Rail flyover (16 Km)                            |                         443 |

|   S.No. | Name of Project                           |   Latest Cost (₹ in Crores) |
|---------|-------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|
|      21 | Guna- Etawah New Line (348 Km)            |                         683 |
|      22 | Ramna-Singrauli doubling (160 Km)         |                        2436 |
|      23 | Karaila Road- Shaktinagar Doubling(32 Km) |                         763 |
|      24 | Malkhedi-Mahadeokhedi Doubling (12 Km)    |                          59 |

## Ongoing projects:

Some  of  the  projects  falling  fully/partly  in  the  State  of  Madhya  Pradesh which have been taken up are as under:

|   S. No. | Project                                                                  |   Cost (₹ in Crores) |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------|
|        1 | Shahdol-Singhpur 4 th Line (6 Km) (passing through Shahdol constituency) |                   54 |
|        2 | Katni- Grade separator / Bypass (35 Km)                                  |                 2300 |
|        3 | Katni- Singrauli Doubling (257 Km)                                       |                 4377 |
|        4 | Lalitpur-Satna, Rewa-Singrauli & Mahoba- Khajuraho New Line (541 Km)     |                 8914 |
|        5 | Ramganjmandi-Bhopal New Line (277 Km)                                    |                 5073 |
|        6 | Indore-Budni New Line (198 Km)                                           |                 7474 |
|        7 | Nimach-Badi Sadri New Line (48 Km)                                       |                  495 |
|        8 | Gwalior-Sheopurkalan Gauge Conversion with extension to Kota (284 Km)    |                 2913 |
|        9 | Itarsi- Nagpur 3rd line (280 Km)                                         |                 2450 |
|       10 | Jhansi-Bina 3rd line (153 Km)                                            |                 2002 |
|       11 | Mathura-Jhansi 3rd line (274 Km)                                         |                 5924 |

|   S. No. | Project                                                    |   Cost (₹ in Crores) |
|----------|------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------|
|       12 | Jhansi-Khairar-Manikpur & Khirar-Bhimsen Doubling (431 Km) |                 4330 |
|       13 | Katni - Bina 3rd line (260 Km)                             |                 3138 |
|       14 | Satna-Rewa Doubling (50 Km)                                |                  590 |
|       15 | Ruthiyai Bye Pass line (3 Km)                              |                   54 |
|       16 | Guna Bye Pass line (2 Km)                                  |                  179 |
|       17 | Ujjain Fly Over (2 Km)                                     |                  100 |
|       18 | Manmad - Indore New Line (360 Km)                          |                18529 |
|       19 | Bhusawal-Khandwa 3rd & 4th Line (131 Km)                   |                 3285 |
|       20 | Dahod-Indore New Line (205 Km)                             |                 9746 |
|       21 | Nimach-Ratlam Doubling (133 Km)                            |                 1096 |
|       22 | Chhota Udepur-Dhar New Line (147 Km)                       |                 1794 |
|       23 | Ratlam-Nagda 3 rd and 4 th line (41 Km)                    |                  964 |
|       24 | Vadodara-Ratlam 3 rd and 4 th line (259 Km)                |                 8387 |
|       25 | Ratlam-Khandwa Gauge Conversion (299 Km)                   |                 7265 |
|       26 | Bina-Itarsi 4 th Line (237 km)                             |                 4329 |
|       27 | Itarsi-Nagpur 4 th Line (297 Km)                           |                 5010 |

In  last  three  years,  2022-23,  2023-24,  2024-25  and  current  financial  year 2025-26, 62 surveys (18 New Line & 44 Doubling) covering a total length of 5,933  Km has been sanctioned falling fully/partly  in  the  State  of  Madhya Pradesh.

Sanction  of  any  railway  project  depends  upon  many  parameters/factors which include the following:

-  Anticipated traffic projections and Remunerativeness of the proposed route

-  First and last mile connectivity provided by the project
-  Connection of missing links and providing additional route
-  Augmentation of congested/saturated lines
-  Demands raised by State Governments/Central Ministries/Public representatives,
-  Railway's own operational requirements
-  Socio-economic considerations
-  Overall availability of funds

Completion of Railway project/s depends on various factors which include the following:

-  Land acquisition by State Government
-  Forest clearance
-  Shifting of infringing utilities
-  Statutory clearances from various authorities
-  Geological and topographical conditions of area
-  Law and order situation in the area of project site
-  Number of working months in a year for particular project site etc.

All these factors affect the completion time and cost of the project/s.

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