Lok Sabha Question No. 985 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-03-02
Subject: Late Running of Trains
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: SUNIL KUMAR SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.985 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.03.2016

## LATE RUNNING OF TRAINS

- † 985. SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of trains running between Delhi-Ranchi-Delhi at present;
- (b)  the  average  time  of  delay  of  the  trains  running  between  DelhiRanchi-Delhi during the last six months;
- (c) the reasons for delay and steps taken to avoid it;
- (d)  whether  the  Government  has  received  any  demand  to  run  the Ranchi-New Delhi Rajdhani Express on daily basis; and
- (e) if so, the time by when it is likely to be run on daily basis and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS ( SHRI MANOJ SINHA )

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

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STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (e)  OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 985 BY SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 02.03.2016 REGARDING LATE RUNNING OF TRAINS.

- (a)   At present, following 07 pair of trains are running between Delhi and Ranchi:
- i. 12825/12826 Ranchi-New Delhi Jharkhand Sampark Kranti Express (bi-weekly)
- ii.
- 12453/12454 Ranchi-New Delhi Rajdhani Express (bi-weekly)
- iii.
- 12439/12440 Ranchi-New Delhi Rajdhani Express (bi-weekly)
- iv. 12877/12878 Ranchi-New Delhi Garib Rath Express (tri-weekly)
- v. 12817/12818  Hatia-Anand  Vihar  (T)  Jharkhand  Swarn  Jayanti Express (tri-weekly)
- vi. 12873/12874  Hatia-Anand  Vihar  (T)  Jharkhand  Swarn  Jayanti Express (tri-weekly)
- vii. 18109/18110 Jammu Tawi-Rourkela Express (Daily)
- (b)  & (c)   Out of the above 7 pairs, the following 3 pairs have suffered significantly higher delays on Delhi-Ranchi-Delhi sector:
-  12817/12818  Hatia-Anand  Vihar  (T)  Jharkhand  Swarn  Jayanti Express
- 12873/12874  Hatia-Anand  Vihar  (T)  Jharkhand  Swarn  Jayanti
-  Express
-  12825/12826 Ranchi-New Delhi Jharkhand Sampark Kranti Express

Average delay to the above three pairs of trains have been in the range of 214-588 minutes.

All  the  above  trains  running  between  New  Delhi  and  Ranchi traverse through Mughalsarai-Allahabad-Ghaziabad sector and therefore  suffer  enroute  detention  as  this  sector  is  facing  severe capacity  constraints  due  to  saturated  line  capacity  with  more  than 150%  line  capacity  utilization.  These  trains  also  lose  heavily  on account of law and order problem as beyond Mughalsarai, these trains traverse  through  Left  Wing  Extremism  (LWE)  affected  areas  of  Bihar and Jharkhand and often lose time due to speed restrictions imposed in the face of Maoist threats issued from time to time by various left wing  groups.  Other  than  the  above  two  factors,  asset  failures  and execution  of  capacity  enhancement  works  have  also  contributed towards loss of punctuality of trains on Delhi-Ranchi sector.

Railways have initiated both long term and short term measures to improve punctuality on Ranchi-Delhi sector.  These  measures include  sensitization  of  staff  involved  in  train  operations,  efforts  to minimize  asset  failures,  rectification  of  failures  in  shortest  possible time etc.  Long term measures for improving punctuality over Indian Railways include better coordination with State governments to deal with  law  and  order  problems,  allocation  of  resources  for  improving infrastructure  through  capacity  enhancement  works,  especially  on saturated routes to overcome the impediments that affect punctuality.

(d)    &  (e)    Requests/representations  for  speeding  up  of  trains  or/and attachment of coaches including sleeper class coaches are received at vario us  levels  of  Railways  administration  viz.  Stations,  Divisional  level, Zonal level and Railway Board's level and action as found feasible is taken from time to time.  However, Indian Railways do not maintain a compendium of such representations.

Increase in frequency of 12453/12454 Ranchi-New Delhi Rajdhani Express (bi-weekly) and 12439/12440  Ranchi-New  Delhi  Rajdhani Express (bi-weekly) into daily is not feasible, at present, due operational and resource constraints including path constraints.

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