{"id":1034,"date":"2007-11-29T12:55:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2007-11-29T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T16:55:47","slug":"orissa-to-fall-drastically-behind-in-rail-density","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/1034","title":{"rendered":"Orissa to fall drastically behind in Rail density"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is from the PIB http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/release\/release.asp?relid=33421<\/a>. (Based on this Orissa will fall behind quite a bit: Only 2000kms of new lines
\n none of the major new lines in Orissa, such as Khurda-Balangir, will get completed during the 11th plan. The states where the freight corridor will run and the states with a lot of narrow gauge lines will surge forward.)<\/p>\n

In order to carry additional freight and passenger traffic in future, Railways have on hand 272 track capacity works, which on completion would add 20,852 kilometers to the Broad Gauge system.  <\/span>The estimated throwforward<\/span> cost of these works is approximately Rs<\/span>. 55,000 crore<\/span>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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A substantial amount of traffic moves on the High density routes viz. the ones which connect the four metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkatta<\/span>, and the Delhi – Gaulhati<\/span> route.  <\/span>Railways have already announced construction of two Dedicated Freight Corridors between JNPT-Tughlakabad<\/span> (1483 kms<\/span>) and Sonenagar-Ludhiana<\/span>, (to be later extended to the deep sea <\/span>port<\/span><\/st1:placetype> of <\/span>Kolkatta<\/span><\/span><\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>) (1279 kms<\/span>) at a cost of more than Rs<\/span>. 28,000 crores<\/span> to give relief to two of the densely saturated routes viz. Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata<\/span> routes.  <\/span>In addition, feasibility studies have been ordered on four other corridors – (i<\/span>) North – South (Delhi-Chennai); (ii) East – West (Mumbair<\/span> – Kolkotta<\/span>); (iii) South – East (<\/span>Vijayawada<\/span><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city> – Kharagpur<\/span><\/span> )<\/span> and (iv) South – South (Chennai – <\/span>Goa<\/span><\/span><\/st1:place>).<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, Railway proposes to augment its track capacity in XI Plan by 15,500 kilometers, including 2000 kilometer of new lines, 3500 kilometers of doubling and 10,000 kilometers of gauge conversion.<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The revenue earning freight traffic in the XI Five Year Plan period is expected to increase from 728 million tonnes<\/span> in 2006-07 to 1100 million tonnes<\/span> in 2011-12.  <\/span>The corresponding freight output is expected to increase from 475 billion ton kilometers in 2006-07 (prov<\/span>.) to 707 billion ton kilometers in 2011-12.  <\/span>In order to cater to the projected freight traffic, it is expected that 62000 wagons would be required during the XI Plan.  <\/span>Railways will also require to induct<\/span> 1800 electric and 1800 diesel locomotives for carrying the projected traffic in the XI plan.  <\/span>In addition to enhance the capacity of the existing diesel and electric locomotive manufacturing units, Railways are also going in for setting up a diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra<\/span> and electric loco factory at Madhepura<\/span> which will produce 150 and 120 locos per year respectively.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Since capacity augmentation takes time, Railways have taken immediate steps to enhance the throughput by increasing the carrying capacity of wagons by 6 tonnes<\/span> on most of the routes and by 8 tonnes<\/span> on selected routes and also strengthen the track, bridges and allied structures.  <\/span>In addition, 28 heavy mineral routes with over 6900 route kilometers have been further identified for implementation of 25 tonne<\/span> Axle load.  <\/span>Also on selected routes, double stack containers trains have been permitted to further enhance the throughput per train. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Railways also plan to induct wagons of better design, higher capacity, longer life and low on maintenance.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

The passenger traffic in the XI Five Year Plan is expected to increase from 6242 million passengers in 2006-07 (RE) to 8400 million in 2011-12.  <\/span>The correspondence passenger output is expected to increase from 700 billion passenger kilometers to 880 billion passenger kilometers.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

In order to cater to this increase in traffic, it is expected that 22500 coaches would be required  <\/span>during<\/span> the XI Five Year Plan,  <\/span>implying a yearly requirement of 4500 coaches.  <\/span>In order to meet this requirement , the production capacities of the existing units –integral Coach Factory, Prembur<\/span>  <\/span>and Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthanla<\/span> – are being enhanced to 1500 and 1400 coaches per annum respectively from the  <\/span>present capacity of 1000 coaches per annum each.  <\/span>Further, a new coach factory is also being planned to be set up at Rai<\/span> Bareily<\/span> to bridge the shortfall in requirement and production capacities.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Railways have constructed a total of 4084 kilometers of track in the last three years.  <\/span>The details are as under :<\/span>–<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n

Category<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

New Lines<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Doubling<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Gauge Conversion<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Total<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

2004-05<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

150<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

779<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

282<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1211<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

2005-06<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

180<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

744<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

231<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1155<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

2006-07<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

250<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1082<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

386<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

1718<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Total<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

580<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

2605<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

899<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

4084<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri<\/span> R.Velu<\/span> in written reply to a question in the Lok<\/span><\/span>  <\/span>Sabha<\/span><\/span> today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is from the PIB http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/release\/release.asp?relid=33421. (Based on this Orissa will fall behind quite a bit: Only 2000kms of new lines  none of the major new lines in Orissa, such as Khurda-Balangir, will get completed during the 11th plan. The states where the freight corridor will run and the states with a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,520,589,201,502,505,518,522,3,202,576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talcher-sukinda-under-constr","category-baripada-bangiriposi-under-constr","category-bhadrakh-dhamara-port-conn-planned","category-ecor","category-haridaspur-paradeep-under-constr","category-khurda-rd-balangir-under-contr","category-lanjigarh-rd-junagarh","category-naupada-gunupur-gauge-conversion","category-indian-railways-and-orissa","category-ser","category-talcher-bimlagarh-under-constr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}