Lok Sabha Question No. 5411 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-03-25
Subject: Nandurbar-Taloda-Akkalkuwa-Umarpada-Dediyapada New Railway Line
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Adv Gowaal Kagada Padavi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5411 TO BE ANSWERED ON 25.03.2026

## NANDURBAR-TALODA-AKKALKUWA-UMARPADA-DEDIYAPADA NEW RAILWAY LINE

5411.   ADV GOWAAL KAGADA PADAVI:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has examined a proposal for a new railway line  connecting  Nandurbar  -  Taloda  -  Akkalkuwa  -  Umarpada  Dediyapada  and  linking  it  with  the  Bharuch  line  in  Gujarat  to enhance inter-state connectivity and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the  current  status  of  new  surveys,  new  route  feasibility  and consultations with the Governments of Maharashtra and Gujarat for new projects;
- (c) the  details  of  the  estimated  cost,  traffic  potential  and  economic viability of the corridor between two States;
- (d) the current status of the projects in terms of passenger mobility, freight transport and socio-economic development of tribal regions; and
- (e) the  proposed  timeline  for  approval,  funding  and  execution  of  the project?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, INFORMATION & BROADCASTING AND

## ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a) to (e): Nandurbar  is  connected  to  Bharuch  through  existing  railway network via Surat (Udhna). To  connect  Umarpada to  Bharuch and  Udhna, Kosamba-Umarpada Gauge Conversion project (70 Km) has been taken up. Project is declared as 'Special Railway Project' and CALA is nominated for land acquisition. Land acquisition has been taken up.

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To  provide  additional  connectivity  in  the  region,  feasibility  study  for Umarpada-Akkalkuva-Nandurbar new line (96 Km) was carried out. However, the project has low traffic projections.

To further improve connectivity in the region, following additional works/surveys have been taken up:-

| Name of works/surveys                                      |   Length (Km) | Status                                                                              |
|------------------------------------------------------------|---------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Udhna (Surat)- Nandurbar 3 rd & 4 th line                  |           156 | Detailed Project Report has been prepared.                                          |
| Nandurbar-Jalgaon 3 rd & 4 th line                         |           148 | Survey has been sanctioned.                                                         |
| Nimach - Dahod - Alirajpur - Nandurbar new line            |           380 | Survey has been sanctioned.                                                         |
| Indore - Nardana - Manmad new line                         |           360 | The project has been declared as 'Special Railway Project'. Work has been taken up. |
| Dahanu - Udhna - Surat - Vadodara - Anand 3 rd & 4 th line |           311 | Survey has been sanctioned.                                                         |

After preparation of DPR, sanctioning of project requires consultation with various stake-holders including State Governments and necessary approvals  viz. appraisal of NITI Aayog,  Ministry of  Finance  etc.  As sanctioning  of  projects  is  a  continuous  and  dynamic  process,  exact timelines depend upon appraisals and approvals by various stakeholders.

## MAHARASHTRA:

Railway Budget:

Budget  allocation  during  the  last  five  years  has  increased  significantly. Budget  allocation  for  infrastructure  projects  and  safety  works,  falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra is as under:

| Period   | Outlay                             |
|----------|------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | ₹1,171 crore/year                  |
| 2025-26  | ₹23,778 crore (More than 20 times) |

Track construction:

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

| Period   | New Track Commissioned   | Average Commissioning of new tracks   |
|----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | 292 Km                   | 58.4 Km/year                          |
| 2014-25  | 2,292 Km                 | 208.4 Km/year (More than 3 times)     |

Projects sanctioned:

As on 01.04.2025, 38 projects (11 New Lines, 02 Gauge Conversion and 25 Doubling),  of  a  total  length  of  5,098  km,  costing  ₹89,780  crore,  falling fully/partly  in  the  State  of  Maharashtra,  have  been  sanctioned.  The summary is as under:-

| Category                 |   No. of projects | Total length (Km)   | Length commissioned upto Mar'25 (Km)   | Total Expenditure upto Mar'25 (Cr.)   |
|--------------------------|-------------------|---------------------|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| New Line                 |                11 | 1,355               | 234                                    | 10,504                                |
| Gauge Conversion         |                02 | 609                 | 334                                    | 4,286                                 |
| Doubling / Multitracking |                25 | 3,134               | 1,792                                  | 24,617                                |
| Total                    |                38 | 5,098               | 2,360                                  | 39,407                                |

Recently completed projects:

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

|   S.No. | Name of Project                           | Cost (₹ in Cr.)   |
|---------|-------------------------------------------|-------------------|
|       1 | Pune-Miraj-Londa Doubling (467 Km)        | 4,670             |
|       2 | Jabalpur-Gondia Gauge Conversion (300 Km) | 2,005             |

|   S.No. | Name of Project                             | Cost (₹ in Cr.)   |
|---------|---------------------------------------------|-------------------|
|       3 | Chhindwara-Nagpur Gauge Conversion (150 Km) | 1,512             |
|       4 | Panvel-Pen Doubling (35 Km)                 | 263               |
|       5 | Pen-Roha Doubling (40 Km)                   | 330               |
|       6 | Udhna-Jalgaon Doubling (307 Km)             | 2,448             |
|       7 | Mudkhed-Parbhani Doubling (81 Km)           | 673               |
|       8 | Bhusawal-Jalgaon 3rd Line (24 Km)           | 325               |
|       9 | Jalgaon-Bhusawal 4th Line (24 Km)           | 261               |
|      10 | Daund-Gulbarga Doubling (225 Km)            | 3,182             |

## Ongoing projects:

## To further improve the Railway Infrastructure in the State of Maharashtra, following works have been taken up:-

|   S. No. | Name of the project                                                | Cost (₹ In crore)   |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------|
|        1 | Ahilyanagar (Ahmednagar) - Beed - Parli Vaijnath New Line (261 Km) | 4,957               |
|        2 | Baramati-Lonand New Line (64 Km)                                   | 1,844               |
|        3 | Wardha-Nanded New Line (284 Km)                                    | 3,445               |
|        4 | Indore-Manmad New Line (360 Km)                                    | 18,529              |
|        5 | Wadsa-Gadchiroli New Line (52 Km)                                  | 1,886               |
|        6 | Jalna-Jalgaon New Line (174 Km)                                    | 5,804               |
|        7 | Daund-Manmad Doubling (236 Km)                                     | 3,037               |
|        8 | Kalyan-Kasara 3rd Line (68 Km)                                     | 1,433               |
|        9 | Wardha-Nagpur 3rd Line (76 Km)                                     | 698                 |
|       10 | Wardha-Ballarshah 3rd Line (132 Km)                                | 1,385               |
|       11 | Itarsi-Nagpur 3rd Line (280 Km)                                    | 2,450               |
|       12 | Rajnandgaon-Nagpur 3rd Line (228 Km)                               | 3,545               |
|       13 | Wardha-Nagpur 4th Line (79 Km)                                     | 1,137               |
|       14 | Jalgaon-Manmad 4th Line (160 Km)                                   | 2,574               |
|       15 | Bhusawal-Khandwa 3rd & 4th Line (131 Km)                           | 3,285               |
|       16 | Solapur-Tuljapur-Osmanabad New Line (95 Km)                        | 2,933               |
|       17 | Panvel-Chowk Double Line (17 Km)                                   | 491                 |
|       18 | Wardha-Balharshah 4th Line (135 Km)                                | 2,226               |
|       19 | Itarsi-Nagpur 4th Line (297 Km)                                    | 5,010               |
|       20 | Wardha-Bhusawal 3rd & 4th Line (314 Km)                            | 9,197               |
|       21 | Asangaon-Kasara 4th Line (35 Km)                                   | 794                 |
|       22 | Badlapur-Karjat 3rd & 4th Line (32 Km)                             | 1,324               |
|       23 | Gondia-Dongargarh 4th Line (84 Km)                                 | 2,223               |
|       24 | Gondia-Balharshah Doubling (240 Km)                                | 4,819               |

Increasing train handling capacity in Mumbai area:

Presently,  about  120  originating  Mail/Express  trains  and  about  3200  sub urban trains are handled daily in Mumbai area. To increase train handling capacity  at  various  stations  in  Mumbai  area,  following  works  have  been completed/taken up/planned at various stations:

|   SN | Location         | Details                                       |
|------|------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
|    1 | Bandra Terminus  | 3 Pit Lines have been completed               |
|    2 | Mumbai Central   | Platform extension for 24 LHB coaches         |
|    3 | Jogeshwari       | 2 additional platforms                        |
|    4 | Dadar            | 1 additional platform                         |
|    5 | Vasai road       | 6 platforms, 3 pit lines and 5 stabling lines |
|    6 | Panvel-Kalamboli | 5 platforms , 4 pit lines and 2 sick lines    |
|    7 | Kalyan           | 6 platforms and 4 pit lines                   |
|    8 | LTT              | 4 platforms and 2 pit lines                   |
|    9 | Parel            | 6 platforms, 5 pit lines, 6 stabling lines    |
|   10 | Virar            | 25 stabling lines                             |
|   11 | Dahanu road      | 11 stabling lines                             |
|   12 | Mira road        | 25 stabling lines                             |

Platform length extension:

In addition to above, Platform extension work at 34 stations to accommodate 15 car EMUs have been taken up.

New projects for increasing capacity:

To improve the capacity of rail network in Mumbai suburban area, Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP)-II costing ₹8,087 crore, MUTP-III costing ₹10,947 crore and MUTP-IIIA costing ₹33,690 crore have been sanctioned. These projects include following works in Mumbai Suburban Area:

|   SN | Name of Project                                    |   Cost (₹ in Cr.) |
|------|----------------------------------------------------|-------------------|
|    1 | CSMT-Kurla 5th & 6th Line (MUTP-II) (17.5 Km)      |               891 |
|    2 | Mumbai Central-Borivali 6th Line (MUTP-II) (30 Km) |               919 |

|   3 | Extension of Harbour Line from Goregaon-Borivali (MUTP-IIIA) (7 Km)   | 826   |
|-----|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|-------|
|   4 | Borivali-Virar 5th & 6th Line (MUTP-IIIA) (26 Km)                     | 2,184 |
|   5 | Virar-Dahanu Road 3rd & 4th Line (MUTP-III) (64 Km)                   | 3,587 |
|   6 | Panvel-Karjat Suburban Corridor (MUTP-III) (29.6 Km)                  | 2,782 |
|   7 | Airoli-Kalwa (elevated) Suburban Corridor link (MUTP- III) (3.3 Km)   | 476   |
|   8 | Kalyan-Asangaon 4thLine (MUTP-IIIA) (32 Km)                           | 1,759 |
|   9 | Kalyan-Badlapur 3rd& 4th line (MUTP-IIIA) (14 Km)                     | 1,510 |
|  10 | Kalyan-Kasara 3rd Line (67 Km)                                        | 793   |
|  11 | Naigaon-Juichandra double chord Line (6 Km)                           | 176   |
|  12 | Nilaje-Kopar double chord Line (5 Km)                                 | 338   |
|  13 | Kalyan Yard remodeling work                                           | 866   |

New generation trains:

To enhance passenger carrying capacity, 238 rakes of 12 cars each with doors  have  been  sanctioned  under  MUTP-III  &  IIIA  at  a  cost  of  ₹19,293 crore. The process for procurement of these rakes has been taken up.

Capacity Augmentation works for Pune Area:

Presently,  about  33  originating  Mail/Express  trains  are  handled  daily  in Pune area.

To  increase  train  handling  capacity  at  various  stations  in  Pune  area, following works have been completed/taken up/planned at various stations:

|   SN | Location      | Details                                                |
|------|---------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
|    1 | Pune Junction | 6 additional Platforms and Extension of 5 Platforms.   |
|    2 | Hadapsar      | Extension of 3 Platforms to handle full length trains. |
|    3 | Khadki        | Raising and Extension of PF-3/4 and extension          |

|    |           | of running lines completed in July'2025.                                            |
|----|-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  4 | Alandi    | New Coaching Terminal with 9 additional Platforms, 8 pit lines and 8 stabling lines |
|  5 | Phursungi | 5 Stabling Lines at Phursungi                                                       |

In  addition  to  above,  following  capacity  additional  works  have  been undertaken in Pune Area to increase the train handling capacity:

|   SN | Name of Project                                                                               |
|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    1 | 3rd Line between Hadapsar and Ghorpuri Yard                                                   |
|    2 | New Block station at Manjari Bhadrukin Pune-Daund Section and Ramtekdi in Pune-Sasvad section |
|    3 | Bidirectional Signalling in Pune Sasvad Road Section                                          |

## Bullet Train project:

Mumbai-Ahmedabad  High  Speed  Rail  (MAHSR)  Project  (508  km)  passes through the States of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar  Haveli  with  12  stations  planned  at  Mumbai,  Thane,  Virar,  Boisar, Vapi, Billimora, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Anand, Ahmedabad and Sabarmati.

Entire land (1389.5 Ha.) for MAHSR project has been acquired. All Statutory Clearances  have  been  obtained.  All  1651  utilities  have  been  shifted.  The delay  in  land  acquisition  in  the  State  of  Maharashtra  has  impacted  the project till 2021. The land acquisition picked up in 2022 in Maharashtra.

## The progress of various major items so far is as under:

| Item      | Progress   |
|-----------|------------|
| Piers     | 430 kms.   |
| Girder    | 341 kms.   |
| Track Bed | 174 kms.   |
| OHE Masts | 153 kms.   |

## The progress of stations is given below:-

|   S.No. | Station      | Status                                                                                                |
|---------|--------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | Sabarmati    | Foundation works completed, Platform slab & roof structural works and finishing works are in progress |
|       2 | Ahmedabad    | Structural works completed and finishing                                                              |
|       3 | Anand/Nadiad | works have been taken up.                                                                             |
|       4 | Vadodara     | Foundation work completed, structural works and finishing works have been taken up.                   |
|       5 | Bharuch      | Structural works completed and finishing works have been taken up.                                    |
|       6 | Surat        |                                                                                                       |
|       7 | Bilimora     |                                                                                                       |
|       8 | Vapi         | Foundation works have been taken up and in                                                            |
|       9 | Boisar Virar | advanced stage. Structural works have                                                                 |
|      10 |              | been taken up.                                                                                        |
|      11 | Thane        | This is an underground station. Foundation works almost completed and Base Slab has been taken up.    |
|      12 | BKC (Mumbai) |                                                                                                       |

## The progress on the River Bridges is as under:-

|   S. No. | River Name                  | Status                                                               |
|----------|-----------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Sabarmati River (480m)      | Sub-Structure work completed, Superstructure work has been taken up. |
|        2 | Meshwa River (120m)         | Bridge construction completed.                                       |
|        3 | Vatrak River (280m)         | Bridge construction completed.                                       |
|        4 | Mohar (Shedhi) River (160m) | Bridge construction completed.                                       |
|        5 | Mahi River (720m)           | 11 out of 12 wells completed;5 spans launched                        |
|        6 | Vishwamitri River (80m)     | Bridge construction completed.                                       |
|        7 | Dhadhar River (120m)        | Bridge construction completed.                                       |
|        8 | Narmada River (1366m)       | 21 out of 25 wells completed; 4 spans launched                       |
|        9 | Kim River (120m)            | Bridge construction completed.                                       |

| 10                              | Tapi River (720m)                                                                       | Foundation work has been taken up, 10 out of 12 wells completed   |
|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 11 Mindhola River               | (240m)                                                                                  |                                                                   |
| Purna River (360m)              |                                                                                         | 12                                                                |
| Ambika River (200m)             |                                                                                         | 13                                                                |
| Venganiya River (200m)          |                                                                                         | 14                                                                |
| Kaveri River (120m)             |                                                                                         | 15                                                                |
| Kharera River (120m)            | Bridge construction completed.                                                          | 16                                                                |
| 17 Auranga River                | (320m)                                                                                  |                                                                   |
| Par River (320m)                |                                                                                         | 18                                                                |
| Kolak River (160m)              |                                                                                         | 19                                                                |
| Daman Ganga River (360m)        |                                                                                         | 20                                                                |
| Darotha River (80m)             |                                                                                         | 21                                                                |
| Jagani River (360m)             | works have been completed (out                                                          | 22 Foundation                                                     |
| Vaitarna (2320m)                | River 12 Pile Cap and 11 Pier of 58) completed.                                         | 23                                                                |
| Ulhas River Branch (120m)       | Temporary Access Bridge (TAB) completed to start the foundation work.                   | 24                                                                |
| Desai Khadi River Bridge (400m) | Geo-technical Investigation (GTI) has been completed and Design work has been taken up. | 25                                                                |

The work of the under-sea tunnel (approximately 21 Km) has commenced, out  of  which  4.8  Km  of  tunnel  between  Ghansoli  and  Shilphata  in Maharashtra has been completed.

## Dedicated Freight Corridor:

Ministry  of  Railways  (MoR)  has  taken  up  construction  of  two  Dedicated Freight  Corridors  (DFC)  viz.  Eastern    Dedicated    Freight    Corridor  (EDFC) from  Ludhiana  to  Sonnagar (1,337 Km) and the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor  (WDFC)  from  Jawaharlal  Nehru  Port  Terminal  (JNPT)  to  Dadri (1,506 Km). The work on EDFC has been completed and commissioned. In

WDFC,  1,404  RKm  out  of  total  1,506  RKm  has  been  completed  and commissioned.  The  balance  work  on  WDFC  from  Vaitarna-JNPT  section (102  Rkm)  has  been  taken  up.  The  Western  Dedicated  Freight  Corridor (WDFC)  consisting  of  565  Km  route  in  the  State  of  Gujarat  is  already operational.

Western  DFC  also  passes  through  Maharashtra.  About  178  route  Km  of western DFC is situated in Maharashtra. 76 Km of this project from New Gholvad to New Vaitarna in Maharashtra has already been commissioned. Balance  works  have  been  taken  up.  Connectivity  of  WDFC  to  JNPT  will boost the capacity to handle cargo and container traffic from port to Delhi NCR.

GUJARAT:

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 Gujarat is as under:

| Period   | Outlay                             |
|----------|------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | ₹589 crore/year                    |
| 2025-26  | ₹17,155 crore (More than 29 times) |

## Track Construction:

The details of commissioning/laying of new track, falling fully/partly in the State of Gujarat during 2009-14 and 2014-25, is as under:

| Period   | New Track Commissioned   | Average Commissioning of new tracks   |
|----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| 2009-14  | 660 Km                   | 132 Km/year                           |
| 2014-25  | 2,764 Km                 | 251 Km/yr (nearly 2 times)            |

## Projects Sanctioned:

As on 01.04.2025, 36 Railway projects (6 New Lines, 17 Gauge Conversion and  13  Doubling),  of  a  total  length  of  2,564  Km,  costing  ₹30,275  crore, falling  fully/partly  in  the  State  of  Gujarat  have  been  sanctioned.  The summary is as under:-

| Category                 |   No. of sanctioned projects | Total length (Km)   |   Length commissioned upto Mar'25 (Km) | Total Expenditure upto Mar'25 (Cr.)   |
|--------------------------|------------------------------|---------------------|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
| New Lines                |                            6 | 532                 |                                    105 | 5,494                                 |
| Gauge Conversion         |                           17 | 1,379               |                                    718 | 6,213                                 |
| Doubling / Multitracking |                           13 | 653                 |                                     40 | 1,158                                 |
| Total                    |                           36 | 2,564               |                                    863 | 12,865                                |

Recently completed projects:

Details of some of the completed projects, falling fully/partly in the State of Gujarat, are as under:

|   S.No. | Name of Project                                                       | Cost (₹ in Cr.)   |
|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------|
|       1 | Mahesana-Taranga Hill Gauge Conversion (210 Km)                       | 891               |
|       2 | Himmatnagar-Khedbrahma Gauge Conversion (55 Km)                       | 482               |
|       3 | Ahmedabad-Botad Gauge Conversion (170 Km)                             | 1,810             |
|       4 | Dhasa-Jetalsar Gauge Conversion (104 Km)                              | 1,024             |
|       5 | Ahmedabad-Mahesana Gauge Conversion (69 Km)                           | 874               |
|       6 | Katosan-Chanasma Gauge Conversion (38 Km)                             | 484               |
|       7 | Kalol-Kadi-Katosan Gauge Conversion (37 Km)                           | 347               |
|       8 | Vijapur-Ambliyasan Gauge Conversion (42 Km)                           | 415               |
|       9 | Dabhoi-Chandod with extension up to Kevadiya Gauge Conversion (50 Km) | 1,018             |
|      10 | Viramgam-Samakhiali Doubling (182 Km)                                 | 1,492             |
|      11 | Palanpur-Samakhayali Doubling (247 Km)                                | 2,538             |
|      12 | Mahesana-Palanpur Doubling (65 Km)                                    | 537               |

|   S.No. | Name of Project                          | Cost (₹ in Cr.)   |
|---------|------------------------------------------|-------------------|
|      13 | Surendranagar-Rajkot Doubling (116 Km)   | 1,425             |
|      14 | Anand-Godhara Doubling (79 Km)           | 692               |
|      15 | Vatva-Ahmedabad 3 rd Line (8 Km)         | 61                |
|      16 | Viramgram-Surendranagar Doubling (65 Km) | 382               |
|      17 | Udhna-Jalgaon Doubling (307 Km)          | 2,448             |

## Ongoing Projects:

Details  of  some of  the  projects  falling  fully/partly  in  the  State  of  Gujarat which have been taken up are as under:

|   S. No. | Project                                                          | Cost (₹ in Cr.)   |
|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------|
|        1 | Naliya-Jakhau Port New Line (25 Km)                              | 410               |
|        2 | Miyagam Karjan - Choranda - Malsar Gauge Conversion (37 Km)      | 450               |
|        3 | Jambusar-Kavi Gauge Conversion (26 Km)                           | 318               |
|        4 | Kosamba-Umarpada Gauge Conversion (70 Km)                        | 468               |
|        5 | Khijadiya - Amreli Gauge Conversion (17 Km)                      | 178               |
|        6 | Barejadi - Nandej (Geratpur) - Sanand 4th Line (38 Km)           | 962               |
|        7 | Samakhiali-Gandhidham Quadrupling (53 Km)                        | 1,430             |
|        8 | Vishvamitri-Dabhoi Doubling (33 Km)                              | 394               |
|        9 | Taranga Hill-Ambaji-Abu Road New Line (116 Km)                   | 2,798             |
|       10 | Sabarmati D Cabin-Sarkhej Doubling (21 Km)                       | 323               |
|       11 | Deshalpar - Hajipir - Luna and Vayor - Lakhpat New Line (145 Km) | 2,526             |
|       12 | Vadodara-Ratlam 3rd & 4th Line (259 Km)                          | 8,387             |
|       13 | Rajkot-Kanalus Doubling (111 Km)                                 | 1,081             |

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 operational requirements
-  Socio-economic considerations
-  Overall availability of funds

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

-  Land acquisition
-  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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