New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- In a transformation that is being seen as one of the fastest infrastructure shifts in independent India, Indian Railways has electrified more route kilometres in the last 11 years than in the previous six decades combined, pushing the Broad Gauge network to 99.4 per cent electrification.
Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw said that 46,900 route kilometres (Rkm) have been electrified during 2014-25, compared to 21,801 Rkm electrified in about 60 years before 2014.
The numbers underline the scale of acceleration: what took decades has been nearly doubled in just over a decade under a mission-mode push. Electrification work on the remaining sections of the ...