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SME Times News Bureau | 11 Jul, 2019
The Railway Ministry will execute 491 projects in seven northeastern
states at a cost of Rs 6.48 lakh crore, Lok Sabha member from Tripura
Pratima Bhowmik said on Thursday quoting Railway Minister Piyush Goyal.
Bhowmik
in a statement from New Delhi said that Goyal in his reply to her
question in Parliament on Wednesday said that 189 new railway lines, 55
gauge conversion and 247 doubling projects are in different stages of
planning, approval, execution in the states.
The total length of
these projects is 48,861 km. The total expenditure on the projects upto
March this year is Rs 1.43 lakh crore and length commissioned is 9,113
km, Bhowmik quoted Goyal as saying.
Goyal said that by 2021-22
fiscal, all the railway lines in the seven northeastern states --
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and
Tripura - would be electrified.
The Minister said that the
timely completion of any railway project depends on various factors like
quick land acquisition by state government, forest clearance, shifting
of infringing utilities (both underground and over ground) and statutory
clearances from various authorities, among others.
"In the
overall interest of the nation and to ensure that projects are completed
in time without cost overrun, lot of monitoring is done in railways at
various levels."
"To ensure that projects are completed even
before time, railways has adopted the concept of incentives to the
contractor in the form of bonus," the Railway Minister said.
The
Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), one among the 17 railway zones in
India, is responsible for extending the railway lines and maintaining
train services in seven districts of West Bengal and five districts in
north Bihar, besides the eight northeastern states, including Sikkim.
An
official of NFR said that the railway authority has been trying to
extend the railway lines in three remaining capital cities of northeast
India - Imphal (Manipur), Aizawl (Mizoram) and Kohima (Nagaland) --
excluding Meghalaya's Shillong and Sikkim's Gangtok, by 2020.
Assam's
main city of Guwahati, Tripura's capital Agartala and Arunachal's
capital Itanagar already linked with the railway network.
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