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The scheme responds to the continued growth in travel demand. The existing infrastructure will be expanded to meet future requirements.
The scheme includes four types of tasks:
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The terminals will be extended with additional platforms, stabling lines, pit lines and adequate shunting facilities.
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New terminals will be identified and constructed in and around urban areas.
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New maintenance facilities including mega coaching complex will be developed.
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Sectional capacity will be increased through traffic facilitation works, signaling upgrades and multitracking.
Nearby stations will also be considered in capacity planning so that traffic remains balanced. For Pune, the plan includes more platforms and stabling lines at Pune station besides Hadapsar, Khadki and Alandi.
This exercise covers suburban and non-suburban traffic. Zone will prepare a comprehensive plan for 48 cities and submit it to the Planning Directorate. The plan will list the works that are proposed, planned or already approved to double the initial capacity in a time bound manner.
Although the ultimate target year is 2030, the capacity addition will be done in a phased manner over the next five years. You will be able to get benefits gradually from this.
Actions will be grouped as immediate, short-term and long-term. Each zonal railway will also plan to increase sectional capacity and remove operational bottlenecks at stations and yards.
The 48 cities covered are: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Patna, Lucknow, Pune, Nagpur, Varanasi, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Mathura, Ayodhya, Agra, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Indore, Bhopal, Ujjain, Jammu, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Vadodara, Surat, Margao, Cochin, Puri, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam. Vijayawada, Tirupati, Haridwar, Guwahati, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Gaya, Mysore, Coimbatore, Tatanagar, Ranchi, Raipur and Bareilly.