Indian Railways complete Electrification of 45,881 Route Km

New Delhi : Total length of Broad Gauge (BG) routes, electrified BG routes & routes yet to be electrified, zone wise as on 31.03.2021 are as under:-

SN	RAILWAY	Total Broad Gauge (BG) Route Km	Electrified BG Route Km	Balance BG Route Km to be electrified
1	Central	3,853	3,336	517
2	East Coast	2,800	2,791	9
3	East central	4,008	3,540	468
4	Eastern	2,820	2,490	330
5	North Central	3,222	2,707	515
6	North Eastern	3,102	2,299	803
7	Northeast Frontier	4,152	652	3,500
8	Northern	7,062	5,512	1,550
9	North Western	5,248	2,186	3,062
10	South Central	6,206	4,145	2,061
11	South East Central	2,348	2,120	228
12	South Eastern	2,713	2,661	52
13	Southern	4,914	3,570	1,344
14	South Western	3,578	1,208	2,370
15	West Central	3,011	3,011	0
16	Western	4,885	3,183	1,702
17	Kolkata Metro	27	27	0
18	Konkan	740	443	297
	TOTAL	64,689	45,881	18,808

Electrification works are under different stages of planning/execution on balance 18,808 RKM of BG routes of IR, which are being electrified expeditiously.

To complete the projects in time, various steps have been taken which include among others award of large size Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts, better project monitoring mechanism, assured/committed funds through ‘Extra Budgetary Resource (Institutional Finance), decentralization of powers to field units etc.

This information was given by the Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronic & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.