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Railway projects galore in Tamilnadu

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S Vishnu Sharmaa, INN/Chennai, @Svs037

Average budget allocation for infrastructure projects and safety works, falling fully, partly in Tamilnadu, for 2014-19 is Rs 1,979 crore, which is 225 percent of the average annual budget outlay of 2009-14 (Rs 879 crore).

Union Minister of Railways and Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal said this in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha recently.

Allocation of budget for infrastructure projects and safety works falling fully, partly in Tamilnadu, for 2019-2020 is  rupees 2,410 crore, which is 274 percent of the average annual budget outlay of 2009-14 (Rs 879 crore).

Presently, nine new line projects covering a length of 871 Km at a cost of Rs 11,612 crore, eight doubling projects covering a length of 592 Km at a cost of Rs 5,673 crore and 10 railway electrification projects covering route Km of 1633 route Km at a cost of Rs 1570 crore, falling fully, partly in the state of Tamilnadu are under different stages of planning/sanction/execution.

The aggregate cost of these 27 projects is Rs 18,855 crore. The timely completion of any Railway project depends on various factors like quick land acquisition by State Government, forest clearance by officials of forest department, shifting of infringing utilities (both underground and over ground), statutory clearances from various authorities, geological and topographical conditions of area, law and order situation in the area of project site, number of working months in a year for particular project site due to climatic conditions, encountering unforeseen conditions like earthquake, flooding, excessive rains, strikes of labour, orders of courts, situation and conditions of working agencies/contractors etc.All these factors vary from project to project and site to site and affect the completion time and cost of the project, which is finally worked out at the completion stage.

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