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Lok Sabha
44% total route kilometres of East-Coast Railway is already electrified. Electrification work on Kharagpur-Bhubaneshwar and Cuttack-Paradeep sections (540 RKM), which falls in East-Coast Railway, is in progress. Out of 540 RKM, 417RKM has already been electrified and work is in progress on balance portion of Kharagpur-Bhubaneshwar i.e. 38 RKM, which is targeted for completion by December 2005. Electrification of Cuttack-Paradeep (85 RKM) will be taken up with doubling work.
Rs. 19.50 crore have been allotted during the year 2005-06 for the above project and the progress of the work is being regularly monitored.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri R. Velu in written reply to a question by Shri Ananta Nayak in Lok Sabha today.
BSC/HK/CK-108/05
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