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The Southern Railway has been allocated approx. Rs 6,331 crore for Tamil Nadu for the financial year 2024-25 to execute several infrastructure projects, including station redevelopment, construction of flyovers and underpasses, foot over bridges and doubling projects.
Last year the budget outlay for the state was Rs 6,080 crore. Union Minister of State for Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw stated that the 12 new lines have been announced, of which 10 projects would be executed in the state, including Chennai-Cuddalore via Mamallapuram, Sriperumbudur-Guduvancherry, Tindivanam-Nagari, Erode-Palani and Attipattu-Puttur. The total budget outlay for the new line projects was Rs 976.12 crore.
As per the Ministry, 77 railway stations in the state were being redeveloped under the Amrit Bharat Station scheme. About 654 flyovers and underpasses have already been constructed and 116 foot over bridges installed in several railway stations.
With the work on doubling of track of the Chennai Beach to Egmore (4.3 km) already in progress at a cost of Rs 150 crore, the Southern Railway would be executing three other gauge conversion projects of Maniyachi-Nagercoil (102 km) at a cost of Rs 116 crore, Madurai-Maniyachi-Tuticorin (160 km) at a cost of Rs 150 crore, and the Kanniyakumari-Trivandrum (86.56 km) at a cost of Rs 365 crore.
Also, a gauge conversion project of the Tiruchi-Nagore-Karaikal stretch with an extension of the Nagapattinam-Velankanni would be executed at a cost of Rs 150 crore. The budget outlay for 2024-25 was seven times the average outlay of Rs 879 crore in 2009-14. |
