Orissa in the 2008-09 Railway budget
Uncategorized February 27th. 2008, 1:24pmBesides the new trains, extensions and increase in frequency, Orissa comes up in the Railway budget in the following places: (Note: The 2007-2008 budget with its pink book is also available.)
- On new lines the allocations to Orissa (all in ECOR) are (Total 164.43 crores) - from the Pink Book
- Koraput-Rayagada - 5 crores
- Talcher - Sambalpur - 2 crores
- Lanjigarh Rd - Junagarh - 35 crores (57 crore more needed to finish)
- Khurda Rd - Balangir - 32.43 crores (580 crores more to finish)
- Haridaspur-Paradip - 80 crores via RVN (401 crores more to finish)
- Talcher - Bimlagarh - 10 crores (847 crores more to finish)
- New Lines (Total 80 crores) - from the orange book
- Daitari-Bansapani - 20 crores (69.2 crores more to finish) - ECOR
- Angul - Sukinda Rd - 60 crores (251.12 crores more to finish) - ECOR
- On gauge conversion (Total 50.41) - from the Pink Book
- Naupada- Gunupur - 10.41 crores (14.7 crores more to finish) - ECOR
- Rupsa - Bangiriposi - 40 crores (11.1 crores more to finish) - SER
- Doubling (Total 288.25 crores) - from the Pink Book
- Talcher-Cuttack-Paradeep (2nd bridge on Birupa and Mahanadi) - 3.25 crores (1.75 crores more to finish) - ECOR
- Cuttack-Barang (12km) - 35 crores (51 crores more needed to finish) - ECOR
- Khurda Barang 3rd line (35 km) - 125 crores (14.43 crores more to finish) - ECOR
- Rajathagarh-Barang (20 km) - 125 crores (18.33 crores more to finish) - ECOR
- Doubling (total 350 crores ) - from the orange book
- Titlagarh-Lanjigarh Rd - 7 crores (29 lakhs more to finish) - ECOR
- Khurda Rd - Puri Phase 1 - 2 crores (2.79 crores more to finish)-ECOR
- Sambalpur - Rengali - 2 crores (8.76 crores more needed)-ECOR
- Jharsugurha - Rengali - 45 crores (26.41 crores more needed)-ECOR
- Sambalpur - Titlagarh - 65 crores (399.25 crores needed)-ECOR
- Raipur - Titlagarh - 65 crores (548.35 crores needed)-ECOR
- Padapahar-Bansapani - 70 crores (26.58 crores needed) - SER
- Barbil - Barjamada - 40 crores (5 crores needed) - SER
- Bimlagarh - Dumitra - 50 crores (23.52 crores needed) - SER
- Bansapani - Jaruli - 4 crores (72.22 crores needed) - SER
(Below, a slightly edited version of a posting in IRFCA gives the difference between the Pink book, the Orange book and the green book used in earlier years.)
- Green book lists the works sanctioned under SRSF(special railway safety fund). All these works are to be completed by 31.3.2008 .Therefore this year a green book was not published. Green book was prepared as a 5 yr plan in 2003 to renew overaged assets chargeable to the SRSF of Rs 17000 cr.
- Orange book contains those works which are justified for enhancing the carrying capacity of Route (i.e., throughput enhancement work in railway terminology). It contains those gauge conversion, doubling & traffic facility works which are sanctioned for the enhancement of throughput. Railway gives higher priority to complete them.
- Pink book is the main book of budget & contains all sanctioned (new as well as work in progress) works except those which are in the green or orange book.
February 28th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Where is South Orissa in this list? This region of Orissa got only 15.41 crores in the rail budget (Naupada- Gunupur - 10.41 crores + Koraput-Rayagada - 5 crores) out of around 700 crores for rail infrastructure for the whole state as a whole, and no new trains have been introduced for South Orissa. So, if Orissa has got a raw deal, criminal injustice has been done for South Orissa. The state govt. and the intelligentia must speak up.