Maharashtra Sees 20-Fold Rise in Railway Budget Allocation, ₹23,778 Crore Sanctioned for FY 2025-26
Maharashtra Sees 20-Fold Rise in Railway Budget Allocation, ₹23,778 Crore Sanctioned for FY 2025-26
Mumbai, August 9, 2025 – Railways budget allocation for Maharashtra has increased significantly in the recent years. Budget allocation for Infrastructure projects and safety works, falling fully or partly in the State of Maharashtra has increased twenty times from 2009-2014, when average outlay was around Rs 1,171 crore per year to the present FY 2025-26 in which Rs 23,778 crore has been allocated for railway projects in the state.
During the last three years, that is, in FY 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and the current FY, 27 Multi-tracking projects of total length 1991 Km., costing approx. Rs. 47,126 crore falling fully or partly in the State of Maharashtra, have been sanctioned.
Commissioning of sections (New Line, Gauge Conversion and Doubling) falling fully/partly in the State of Maharashtra during 2009-14 and 2014-2024 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 | 208.36 Km/year (more than 3 times) |
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 Maharashtra including Amravati district, are sanctioned, out of which 2,360 km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of ₹39,407 crore has been incurred upto March’ 2025. The summary is as under:-
| Category | No of sanctioned Projects | Total LengthNL/GC/DL(in Km) | Length Commissioned till Mar’25 (in Km) | Total Exp upto Mar’25(₹ in Cr) |
| New Lines | 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 |
Details of some of the recently completed projects falling fully or partly in Maharashtra are as under:-
| S.No. | Project | Cost(₹ in crore) |
| 1 | Jabalpur-Gondia Gauge Conversion (300 Km) | 2005 |
| 2 | Chhindwara-Nagpur Gauge Conversion (150 Km) | 1512 |
| 3 | Panvel-Pen Doubling (35 Km) | 263 |
| 4 | Panvel-Roha Doubling (75 Km) | 31 |
| 5 | Pen-Roha Doubling (40 Km) | 330 |
| 6 | Udhna-Jalgaon Doubling (307 Km) | 2448 |
| 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) | 3182 |
Railways have taken up Bhusawal-Khandwa 3rd & 4th Line (131 Km) project costing ₹3,285 Cr. and a survey has been taken up for Murtizapur – Achalpur Gauge Conversion (77 Km) work falling fully/partly in the Amravati district of Maharashtra.
Some of the main projects falling fully/partly in the Maharashtra which have been taken up are as under:-
| S.No. | Name of the project | Cost (₹ In crore) |
| 1 | Ahmednagar-Beed-Parle 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 | Dhule (Borvihir)-Nardana New Line (51 Km.) | 1,171 |
| 5 | Manmad-Indore New Line (309 Km.) | 16,321 |
| 6 | Wadsa-Gadchiroli New Line (52 Km) | 1,886 |
| 7 | Jalna -Jalgaon New Line (174 Km.) | 5,804 |
| 8 | Pune-Miraj-Londa Doubling (466 Km.) | 6,463 |
| 9 | Daund Manmad Doubling (236 Km.) | 30,376 |
| 10 | Mudkhed – Medchal & Mahbubnagar – Dhone section Doubling (417 Km.) | 4,686 |
| 11 | Hotgi-Kudgi-Gadag Doubling (284 Km.) | 2,459 |
| 12 | Kalyan-Kasara – 3rd line (68 Km.) | 1,433 |
| 13 | Wardha -Nagpur 3rd line (76 Km.) | 698 |
| 14 | Wardha-Ballarshah 3rd line (132 Km.) | 1,385 |
| 15 | Itarsi- Nagpur 3rd line (280 Km.) | 2,450 |
| 16 | Manmad Jalgaon 3rd line (160 Km.) | 1,677 |
| 17 | Kazipet -Ballarshah – 3rd line (202 Km.) | 3,183 |
| 18 | Rajnandgaon-Nagpur 3rd line (228 Km.) | 3,545 |
| 19 | Wardha-Nagpur 4th line (79 Km.) | 1,137 |
| 20 | Jalgaon-Manmad 4th Line (160 Km) | 2,574 |
These Multi- tracking projects will enhance line capacity, provide additional passenger and freight traffic, enable faster movement of goods and services, reduce operational bottlenecks, improve logistics efficiency, increase in direct and indirect employment opportunities for the people of the region, reduces operational bottlenecks, develop tourism industry and increase industrial activities in the region.
Further, construction works on the flagship High speed bullet train project have gathered momentum in Maharashtra. Now 100% land acquisition has been completed. Works of bridges, aqueducts etc. have been taken up. The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) also passes through Maharashtra. About 178 route Km of western DFC is situated in Maharashtra which is about 12% of overall route length of western DFC. 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.
Railway infrastructure projects falling fully or partly in the State of Maharashtra are covered under Central Railway, South Central Railway, South East Central Railway, South Western Railway and Western Railway Zones of Indian Railways. Zonal Railway wise details of Railway projects are made available in public domain on Indian Railway’s website.
This was stated by the Union Minister of Railways, Information & Broadcasting and Electronics & Information Technology Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in a reply to an unstarred question in the Rajya Sabha today.
