Lok Sabha Question No. 2983 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-08-03
Subject: Capital Investment in Railways
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE, ARVIND GANPAT SAWANT

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.2983 TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.08.2016

## CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN RAILWAYS

Ϯ 2983. SHRI KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE: SHRI ARVIND SAWANT:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  there  is  an  urgent  need  to  make  large  scale  capital investment in Railway and if so, the details thereof; (b)    whether the Railways is unable to make such large scale investment and if so, the reasons therefor; and the  details  of  the  railway  projects  stalled  due  to  delay  in  land
- (c) acquisition, zone and State-wise?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(SHRI RAJEN GOHAIN)

- (a) to (c): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (c) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  2983  BY  SHRI  KRUPAL  BALAJI  TUMANE    AND  SHRI ARVIND  SAWANT  TO  BE  ANSWERED  IN  LOK  SABHA  ON  03.08.2016 REGARDING CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN RAILWAYS

(a)  &  (b)  :      Ministry  of  Railways  have  drawn  up  an  investment  plan  of ` 8.56  lakh  crore  over  the  five  years(2015-2019)  as  indicated  in  the  Rail Budget 2015-2016. Apart from budgetary resources and internal generation funds through institutional financing, Public Private Partnership  and  Debt  etc.  forms  part  of  the  Investment  Plan.  Capital investment in Railways has been scaled up -` 93,795 crore in 2015-16 and outlay of ` 1,21,000 crore in 2016-2017.

(c):  List of projects where delay has taken place in land acquisition is as under:-

|   S. No. | Railway            | State                | Year of sanction   | Name of project                                                   |   Length (in Km) |
|----------|--------------------|----------------------|--------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------|
|        1 | Northern           | Himachal, Punjab     | 1981-82            | Nangal Dam-Talwara & Mukerian-Talwara                             |            83.74 |
|        2 | East Coast         | Odisha               | 1996-97            | Angul-Sukinda Road                                                |            98.7  |
|        3 | East Coast         | Odisha               | 1996-97            | Haridaspur-Paradeep                                               |            82    |
|        4 | South Western      | Karnataka            | 1996-97            | Hassan-Bangalore via Shravanabelgola                              |           166    |
|        5 | Southern           | Kerala               | 1997-98            | Angmali-Sabarimala                                                |           116    |
|        6 | Eastern            | Bihar, Jharkhand     | 2000-01            | Deogarh-Sultanganj including Banka-Barahat and Banka-Bhitiah Road |           147    |
|        7 | East Central       | Bihar                | 2003-04            | Hajipur-Sagauli via Vaishali                                      |           148.3  |
|        8 | North Eastern      | Uttrakhand           | 2003-04            | Kichha-Khatima                                                    |            57.7  |
|        9 | East Central       | Bihar                | 2005-06            | Darbhanga- Kusheshwarasthan                                       |            70.14 |
|       10 | North Eastern      | Bihar, Uttar Pradesh | 2005-06            | Hathua-Bhatni                                                     |            79.64 |
|       11 | North Eastern      | Bihar, Uttar Pradesh | 2006-07            | Chhitauni-Tumkuhi Road                                            |            62.5  |
|       12 | Northeast Frontier | Nagaland             | 2006-07            | Dimapur-Kohima                                                    |            88    |

|   13 | Southern           | Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh   | 2006-07   | Tindivanam-Nagari                       |   179.2 |
|------|--------------------|------------------------------|-----------|-----------------------------------------|---------|
|   14 | Northern           | Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand    | 2007-08   | Deoband (Muzzafar Nagar)- Roorkee       |   27.45 |
|   15 | South East Central | Chhattisgarh                 | 2006-07   | Khodri-Annupur with flyover at Bilaspur |   61.6  |

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