Railways

Objectives

By 2022-23, India should have a rail network that is not only efficient, reliable and safe, but is also cost-effective and accessible, both with respect to the movement of people and goods. This requires achieving the following objectives:

  • Augment the capacity of existing railway infrastructure.
  • Increase the speed of infrastructure creation from the present 7 km/day to 19 km/day by 2022-23.
  • Achieve “100 per cent”2 electrification of broad gauge track by 2022-23 from the 40 per cent level in 2016-17.
  • Increase the average speed of freight and mail/express trains to 50 km/hr (from about 24 km/hr in 2016-17) and 80 km/hr (from about 60 ....

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