Six doubling projects covering a length of 517 Km, costing ` 4236 Crore falling fully/partly in the State of Andhra Pradesh have been taken up. On these projects, an expenditure of ` 361 Crore has been incurred upto March, 2015. For the year 2015-16, an outlay of ` 692 Crore has been provided. In addition, 11 doubling projects falling fully/partly in the State of Andhra Pradesh covering a length of 2096 km, costing ` 20341 Crore have been included in Budget 2015-16 subject to requisite Government approvals.
Against 78 Km of sanctioned Track Renewal in Vishakhapatnam-Raipur section, 18 Km of Track Renewal has been completed and balance Track Renewal taken up. In addition, other miscellaneous track works like Through Turn out Renewal...
more... (TTR), Through Weld Renewal (TWR) etc. have also been taken up in the above section. Track maintenance is a continuous process which is carried out as per scheduled frequency or need based. On this section, doubling of Raipur-Titlagarh (203km.) has been taken up. Balance section i.e. Titlagarh to Visakhapatnam is already double line. However, on this section, 3rd line work from Vizianagaram- Titlagarh has also been included in 2015-16 subject to requisite approvals.