One of India’s newest railway zones situated in Bilaspur Chhattisgarh, South East Central Railway (SECR), has been allocated a plan outlay of Rs 5050 crore in the Union Budget for FY22.
The major heads under which the funds have been allocated are as follows:-
| Major heads FY22 | Plan Outlay in Rs crore |
| New Lines (Construction) | 1116 |
| Doubling | 1817.60 |
| Gauge Conversion | 296 |
| Traffic facilities- Yard remodeling and other | 61.53 |
| Rolling Stock | 6.3 |
| Road Safety Works- Level crossing | 13.92 |
| Road Safety Works- Road Over / Under Bridge | 560.74 |
| Track renewals | 570 |
| Bridge Works | 25 |
| Signalling and Telecommunication Works | 93.45 |
| Workshops including Production Units | 32.95 |
| Passenger Amenities | 404.51 |
| Total Plan Outlay for 2021-22 | 5050.71 |
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the Union Budget had announced that detailed Project Reports for future DFC projects will be undertaken in the first phase.
These include the East Coast corridor from Kharagpur to Vijayawada, East-West Corridor from Bhusaval to Kharagpur to Dankuni and North-South corridor from Itarsi to Vijayawada.
The East-West DFC is slated to pass through the main trunk route of SECR between Nagpur and Jharsuguda.
The details of projects which received significant allocation for the fiscal FY22 are as follows:-
New lines
- Dallirajahara- Jagdalpur
- Kharsia-Dharamjaigarh
- Gevra Road- Pendra Road
Gauge Conversion
- Chhindwara -Nagpur
- Chhindwara-Mandla Fort
Doubling/ Tripling/Quadrupling
- Gevra Road- Pendra Road doubling
- Champa-Jharsuguda 3rd line
- Jharsuguda -Bilaspur 4th line
- Rajnandgaon-Nagpur 3rd line
- Bilaspur-Uslapur flyover
- Raipur-Titlagarh, including new line Mandir Hasaud-Naya Raipur(20 km) and new material modification for conversion of Raipur (Kendri)-Dhamtari and Abhanpur-Rajim 2’6” NG branch.
