Thrust oÂn Infra, Safety : Rail Doubling works in Southern Railway get a fillip in Budget 2020-21
HIGHLIGHTS:
·Southern Railway has been granted an amount of Rs.3340 crore as budgetary allocation for the year 2020-2021 with a grant of Rs.1238 crore for doubling, Rs.175 crores towards gauge conversion , Rs.37 crores for traffic facilities and Rs.198 crores for passenger amenities.
·New projects at a cost of Rs. 4131 has been sanctioned towards doubling of Katpadi-Villupuram line, Salem-Karur-Dindigul line, Erode-Karur line and Chennai Beach- Chennai Egmore (4th line). A sanction of Rs.280 crores for Chennai Beach – Chennai Egmore 4th line will help easing congestion in this section.
·With focus oÂn Safety, for elimination of level crossing gates an amount of Rs.880 crores have been sanctioned for new road over bridges and Road under bridges particularly oÂn the Golden quadrilateral/diagonal routes (Chennai – Gudur/Chennai – Arakkonam – Renigunta). This has the potential to increase the speed of trains.
·Replacement of Route relay interlocking (RRI) and A, B and C cabins at Jolarpettai has been allotted an outlay of Rs.6 crore.
·Provision of centralized traffic control in connection with modern train control system has been sanctioned at a cost of Rs.148 cr. This will help in enhancing the line capacity and safety.
·Harnessing the benefits of technology for Safe train operations, provision of indigenous train collision avoidance system oÂn low density railway network has been sanctioned at a cost of Rs.468.9 cr.
·Under Passenger amenities head, a new work for an amount of Rs.150 crores towards minimum essential amenities with more focus oÂn facilities for divyangjan at stations across southern railway has been sanctioned. Rs.75 crores sanctioned towards soft upgrades at stations ( like improvement in station buildings, tall flags, steel benches, cover over platform, etc.)
1.Budgetary grant (BG) under various Plan heads
Plan Head | BG 2020-21 (In Rs.Crores) |
11 | New lines | 2.70 |
14 | Gauge Conversion | 175.18 |
15 | Doubling | 1238.10 including EBR (IF) |
16 | Traffic Facilities | 37.12 |
17 | Computerisation | 7.03 |
21 | Rolling Stock | 106.59 |
29 | Road Safety Work- Level Crossings | 102.36 |
30 | Road Safety Work-ROBs/RUBs | 335.52 |
31 | Track Renewals | 730.00 |
32 | Bridge Works | 54.5 |
33 | Signalling & Telecommunication works | 105.06 |
36 | Other Electrical work, incl. TRD | 39.48 |
41 | Machinery & Plant | 27.76 |
42 | Workshop including PUs | 55.04 |
51 | Staff Welfare | 63.96 |
53 | Passenger Amenities | 198.11 |
64 | Other Specified work | 53.34 |
65 | Training/HRD | 8.1 |
| Grand Total | 3340.00 |
2.Budget grant for some important oÂngoing work is as under:
Sl.No | Plan Head | Section | BG (In. Rs. Cr) |
1. | New Line | Rameswaram-Dhanushkodi (17.2 Km) | 2.7 |
2 | Gauge Conversion | Mayiladuturai-Tiruvarur-Karaikudi & Tiruturaipundi- Agastiyampalli (47.2 Km including Mannargudi-Needamangalam-Mannargudi-Pattukottai Line) | 100.00 |
Madurai-Bodinayakkanur (90.41 Km) | 75.18 |
3. | Doubling | Chengalpattu-Villupuram (103 Km): Tambaram-Chengalpattu-3rd line by GC of existing MG line alongwith electrification (30Km) | 132.00 |
Kurruppanthura-Chingavanam (26.54 km) | 88.00 |
Ambalapuzha-Haripad (18.13 km) | 13.95 |
Omalur-Metur dam- With electrification (29.03 km) | 56.85 |
Trivandrum-Kanyakumari (86.56 km) | 133.5 |
Madurai-Maniyachi-Tuticorin (160 Km) | 367.00 |
| | Maniyachi-Nagercoil (102 Km) | 345.00 |
Netravati-Mangalore Central (1.5 Km) | 10.7 |
Salem-Magnesite-Omalur (11 Km) | 22.00 |
4 | Traffic Facilities | Mangalore Central- Addl Platform lines | 3.00 |
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3.Importance New Works sanctioned are as under:
Sl.No | P.Book item no. | Works | Sanctioned Cost (In Rs.Cr) |
Doubling |
1. | 38 | Katpadi-Villupuram (160.10 Km) | 1601 |
2. | 39 | Salem-Karur-Dingigul (160 Km) | 1600 |
3. | 40 | Erode-Karur (65 km) | 650 |
4. | 41 | Chennai Beach- Chennai Egmore (4.3 km) | 280 |
Total (a) | 4131 |
Traffic Facilities |
1. | 60 | SR- Yard modification to improve speed, intermediate block hut and development of new coaching terminal (b) | 22.51 |
Road Safety Works- Level Crossings |
1. | 101 | SR-Engineering work at LCs (c ) | 20 |
Road Safety works- ROB/RUBs |
1. | 401 | SR- ROB/RUB oÂn Golden quadrilateral/diagonal routes | 480 |
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| 491/2019-20 | 31-01-2020
Chennai | | UPGRADATION IN COMPOSITION OF TRAINS |
One Sleeper Class Coach in Train No. 16336/ 16335 Nagercoil - Gandhidham –Nagercoil Express will be replaced with one AC Three tier coach Ex. Nagercoil from 11.02.2020 and Ex Gandhidham from 14.02.2020 One Sleeper Class Coach in Train No. 16733 / 16734 Rameshwaram - OKHA Port- Rameshwaram Express will be replaced with one AC Three Tier coachEx Rameshwaram from 13.03.2020 and Ex OKHA Port from 17.03.2020. One Sleeper Class Coach in Train No.12659/12660 Nagercoil - Shalimar – Nagercoil Gurudev Express will be replaced with one AC Three Tier coach Ex Rameswaram from 08.03.2020 and Ex Shalimar from 11.03.2020 One Sleeper Class Coach in Train No.16359/16360 Ernakulam – Patna –Ernakulam Express will be replaced with one AC Three Tier coach Ex Ernakulam from 14.03.2020 and Ex Patna Junction from 17.03.2020. One Sleeper Class Coach in Train No.12647/12648 Coimbatore - Nizamuddin – Coimbatore Kongu Superfast Express will be replaced with one AC Three Tier coach Ex Coimbatore from 09.02.2020 and Ex Nizamuddin from 12.02.2020 One Sleeper Class Coach in Train No.12682/12681 Coimbatore - Dr MGR Chennai Central – Coimbatore Express will be replaced with one AC Three Tier coach Ex Coimbatore from 14.02.2020 and Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station from 15.02.2020
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COMMENTS
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Shiva- Fri Aug 19 22:17 2016
Mysore to ramiasvarm how much cost
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B. K. Nagendran. - Thu Apr 6 19:12 2017
Iwant to travel to rameshwaram from mysore and then to kanyakumari and back to mysor. I am a handcap person and my daughter is accompaning me with her 8 yr son. Pl help me in this regard with train fare and other details.
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