IR works on a mission mode to achieve electrification targets

IR has decided to undertake electrification of broad gauge railway lines in mission mode. Significant progress has already been made in this regard and IR is expected to electrify all broad gauge rail lines by 2023-24. The total length of the IR network stood at 67,956 rkm (as on April 1, 2020). As on April 1, 2021, 484 railway projects of 51,165 km length, with an investment of approximately Rs 7,560 billion, are at different stages of planning/sanction/execution. Of this, 10,638 km line length has been commissioned and an expenditure of nearly Rs 2,138 billion has been incurred up to March 2021.