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Railways of Assam
Submitted by pbhagawati on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 17:37
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As per information available from the N.F. Railway, Headquarters, Maligaon, Guwahati, the railway route length in Assam at the end of 2009-10 was 2433.34 kms comprising of 1376.22 kms under Broad Gauge and 1057.12 kms under Metre gauge. During the year 2008-09, the railway route length in the State was 2283.71 kms comprising of 1126.59 kms under Broad Gauge and 1057.12 kms under Metre Gauge. The proportion of Board Gauge railway route length in the State, although, is 56.56 per cent, it shares only 2.62 percent of the country’s total broad gauge railway route length. Taking into account of the total railway route length of 63974 kms for the country as on March 2010, Assam’s share in the country’s railway route length turns out to be around 3.8 per cent at the end of the March 2010.
Railway Route of Assam and N. F. Railway:
Source: Statistical Handbook Assam 2010
The Ministry of Railways has undertaken various developmental activities in the Railway Sector in the State including extension of railways line to link the other States of North-Eastern States Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, and Mizoram through Assam. Among the ongoing railway projects, Bogibeel rail cum road bridge and gauge conversion of Lumding-Silchar-Jiribum-Badarpur & Badarpur to Baraigram-Kumarghat, Rangia Murkongselek projects are declared as national projects and the works are on progress. While the survey work of proposed construction of new line connecting Azara-Byrnihat has got suspended due to obstruction of local people, the construction of Dudhnoi (Assam) — Mendipathar (Meghalaya) is under progress. The Bogibeel rail-cum-road bridge, which will perhaps be the longest railway bridge in the country and the fourth bridge across the Brahmaputra River is under construction and set the target of completion in the first part of the 11th five year plan. The Union Railway Minister has proposed in the Railway Budge 2009-10 for early creation of “North East Region Rail Development Fund” for timely completion of national projects in the region. The Minister also proposed to upgrade the Guwahati Railway Station to international standard under PPP scheme.
During the last couple of years a good number of new passenger trains were introduced to connect different places within the State viz., inter-city trains linking Guwahati and Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Jorhat, Nagaon, Bongaigaon and Fakiragram, apart from daily trains between Lumding and Badarpur. The Railways run a number of inter-State trains linking Guwahati and Dibrugarh with other important places of the country, such as Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Tiruvantapuram, Bangalore, Cochin, and Jammu etc.
Statistical Profile of North East Frontier Railway:
Source : Economic Survey Assam 2010-11 Statistical Handbook Assam 2010 Statistical Handbook Assam 2009
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