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The Railway Ministry connected Friday (December 26, 2025) said that to support up with the accelerated and sustained maturation successful travel, the capableness of large cities to originate caller trains needs to beryllium doubled successful the adjacent 5 years.
It added that the existent infrastructure needs to beryllium augmented truthful arsenic to conscionable the requirements of the upcoming years.
Highlighting actions needed for doubling the originating capableness by the twelvemonth 2030, it plans to augment the existent terminals with further platforms, place and make caller terminals successful and astir the municipality area, conception attraction facilities, including mega coaching complexes and summation the sectional capableness with postulation installation works, among others.
"While readying for expanding the capableness of terminals, stations astir terminals volition besides beryllium considered truthful that capableness is evenly balanced. For example, for Pune city, Hadapsar, Khadki and Alandi person been considered for expanding capableness on with expanding platforms and stabling lines astatine Pune station," the Ministry said.
It added, "The supra workout volition beryllium done for some suburban arsenic good arsenic non-suburban traffic, keeping successful presumption the chiseled requirements of some segments." The Ministry volition taxable a broad program of stations successful the 48 large cities to the Planning Directorate. Some of these cities are Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Patna, Pune, Mathura, Agra and Ludhiana, among others.
"The program volition see the works planned, proposed, oregon already sanctioned to execute the extremity of doubling the capableness of handling trains successful a time-bound manner,' the Ministry said.
It added, "While the program to treble the capableness is by 2030, it is expected that capableness volition beryllium accrued progressively successful the adjacent 5 years truthful that the benefits of capableness summation tin beryllium reaped immediately. This volition assistance successful gathering the postulation request progressively implicit the years. The program volition classify actions nether 3 categories, i.e., immediate, short-term, and long-term." Officials said that the projected program should beryllium circumstantial with wide timelines and defined outcomes.
"While the workout is for circumstantial stations, however, each Zonal Railway (ZR) should program for expanding the capableness of trains moving implicit their divisions truthful that not lone terminal capableness is accrued but besides the sectional capableness and operational constraints astatine stations oregon yards are besides addressed," the Ministry said.
