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Overview

• About Indian Railways Procurement:

  The Ministry of Railways is responsible for the country's rail transportation. It is headquartered at Rail Bhawan in New Delhi. The Rail network in India is the world's 4th largest covering 68.043 Kilometers. The Indian Railways is divided into 18 Zones, which are further sub-divided into 71 divisions. A few key divisions in the Railways are Stores, Engineering, Electrical, Security, Signalling, Accounts and Commercial. Each Railway station is managed by a Station master. For the year 2022-23, the government of India has allocated a budget of INR 2.40 lakh crore for the Railways Ministry. The top procurement areas of Railways are Medicines, Railway related civil works, Rail locomotive spares, Injections and Railway signalling work. 

News

• Amrit Bharat Station Scheme:

  The Government of India plans to redevelop 87 stations into world class railway stations under the Amrit Bharat Stations scheme. Few of the stations are Kurnool, Dibrugarh, Bhilai, Danapur, Patna and Rajgir. For this, the Government has allocated a budget of INR 296 Crores for Gaya and 442 Crores for Muzaffarpur. 

• Railways soon to publish tenders for Hydrogen fuel trains :

  The Indian Railways is ready to publish tenders for procurement of trains powered by Hydrogen green fuel. The project total estimation is INR 2800 crore. It appears that there is a lot of interest in this initiative, As per the Railway Ministry, each Hydrogen train will cost an estimated 80 Crores. Also, there is an infrastructure component, which is estimated at 70 Crores per route. 

• INR 352 crore for doubling a railway line in Andhra Pradesh:

  The Ministry of Railways has approved the doubling of the railway line between Gooty and Pendekallu stations in Andhra Pradesh. The distance covered by this project is 29.2 km and with an estimated cost of INR 352 crore. Additionally, the Indian Railways has sanctioned the doubling of the railway line between Pendekallu and Guntur sections as part of the Guntakal-Guntur doubling project.

• Development of Rail line in the North Eastern States:

  The Indian Railways plans to extend its network to include Tawang and other areas in the northeastern frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Defense Ministry has given approval for this initiative as well as two other projects (BAme-Aalo up to Mechuka and Pashighat-Parshuram-Wakro). Surveys for all three of these projects have already been completed, and it is expected that the new line in Parshuram will be completed by March 2025. Further, an umbrella project or boder and hilly areas worth INR 1.2 Lakh crore is being planned for connecting important towns and border areas in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Manipur and Mizoram. Besides the rail infrastructure, the NF Railway has developed an innovative system for Intrusion Detection System for monitoring and protecting wild elephants from getting hit by trains. For installing this system, the NF Railway has signed a MoU with Railtel.