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A broad acceptable of obstruction infrastructure projects has been approved aimed astatine eliminating congestion, enhancing enactment capacity, improving information systems and enabling faster, much reliable rider and freight question crossed the country, the Railway Ministry said connected Monday (February 9, 2026).
A property connection from the Ministry said these approvals spanned Southern, Northern and South Eastern Railways covering enactment doubling, 3rd and 4th lines, bypass corridors and precocious physics interlocking systems.
“Barbenda–Damrughutu doubling and Damrughutu–Bokaro Steel City 3rd & 4th Lines successful Jharkhand are large capableness enlargement projects nether South Eastern Railway and a cornerstone of India’s Energy, Mineral and Cement Corridor,” the connection said.
It added, “Currently, the enactment operates astatine 108% utilisation, with bid detention ranging betwixt 90-150 minutes, handling 78 (38 rider and 40 freight) trains regular and supporting a freight throughput of 35.22 MTPA (Million Tonnes Per Annum).” Highlighting the support to physics interlocking (EI) astatine 34 stations astatine the outgo of Rs 421.41 crore crossed Northern Railway routes wherever Kavach is being rolled out, the ministry said that it volition heighten information and operational efficiency.
“This includes 21 stations successful the Delhi Division astatine a outgo of ₹292.24 crore and 13 stations successful the Ambala Division costing ₹129.17 crore,” the Ministry said.
According to the Ministry, the support of the Rajpura bypass enactment (13.46 km) nether the Northern Railway costing ₹411.96 crore volition importantly heighten capableness and operational ratio connected the Ambala–Jalandhar section, 1 of the busiest corridors connected the Northern Railway.
The property enactment outlined 2 doubling projects— Alappuzha–Ambalapuzha doubling (12.66 km) astatine the outgo of ₹324.16 crore successful Kerala and Irugur–Podanur doubling (10.77 km) costing ₹277.42 crore successful Tamil Nadu— saying it volition importantly amended enactment capableness and freight operations.
Emphasising the benefits of different bypass project, Palakkad Town-Parli Bypass Line (1.80 km) worthy ₹163.57 crore, the Ministry said it volition supply contiguous operational and rider benefits by eliminating motor reversal astatine Palakkad Junction successful Kerala for aggregate bid services.
“It volition trim mean detention of rider trains by 40-44 minutes and chopped freight detention by up to 120 minutes per train, portion besides supporting further rider services planned from Palakkad Junction,” the connection said.
“By streamlining bid movements, the bypass volition importantly amended punctuality connected routes connecting Shoranur, Thiruvananthapuram and Pollachi, portion easing congestion astatine 1 of Southern Railway’s busiest junctions,” it added.
“Implementation of 7 caller high-speed obstruction corridors to beryllium expedited”
The Ministry connected Monday (February 9, 2026) said that it has initiated steps to expedite the implementation of seven caller High-Speed Rail (HSR) corridors announced successful the Union Budget 2026, marking a large propulsion towards next-generation rider question successful India.
The projected corridors see Mumbai-Pune, Pune-Hyderabad, Hyderabad-Bengaluru, Hyderabad-Chennai, Chennai-Bengaluru, Delhi-Varanasi and Varanasi-Siliguri.
These routes are envisioned arsenic cardinal maturation connectors linking large economic, concern and taste centres crossed the country,” an authoritative connection announced.
“Following a high-level gathering astatine the Railway Board, the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has been directed to instrumentality contiguous enactment to guarantee timely progress. As portion of the roadmap, Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for completed corridors volition beryllium updated with existent outgo estimates to alteration close fiscal viability assessments,” it added.
“The 7 caller corridors are expected to play a transformative relation successful reducing question time, improving rider comfortableness and supporting sustainable, low-emission obstruction connectivity, portion besides catalysing determination economical growth,” the connection said.
