Progress of Kishangarh-Parbatsar Railway Line

Progress of Kishangarh-Parbatsar Railway Line

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 3781

ANSWERED ON: 11.12.2019

Progress of Kishangarh-Parbatsar Railway Line

Hanuman Beniwal

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:-

(a) Whether the Government has any plans for the physical and financial approval of survey conducted by the Railways regarding laying railway line from Pipar to Mundwa via Bhopalgarh-Asop-Sankhwas for providing direct connectivity between Jodhpur to Nagaur in Rajasthan;
(b) If so, the details thereof; and
(c) The action plan of the Government for the further progress of the approved railway line from Kishangarh to Parbatsar in Rajasthan?

ANSWER – MINISTER OF RAILWAYS AND COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

(a) & (b): Survey for construction of new railway line from Pipar Road-Bhopalgarh-Asop-Shankwas-Nagour was completed in 2014-15. As per survey report, the cost was assessed as Rs.293 crore with the negative rate of return of 9.46%. Project could not be taken forward as the project is financially unviable. Further, an updating survey for construction of new railway line from Pipar Road-Bhopalgarh-Asop-Shankwas-Mundwa-Nagour (96.00 Km) has been completed during 2018-19. As per the survey report, the construction cost of new line has been assessed as Rs.339.92 crore with a negative rate of return of 9.22%. The project could not be taken forward due to unremunerative nature of the project.

(c): Kishangarh-Parbatsar (45 Km) new line project was included in Capital Investment Programme 2016-17 in anticipation that Joint Venture (JV) company of Government of Rajasthan will identify this project for execution.

However, Government of Rajasthan has not formed the JV company with Ministry of Railways.