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Indian Railways may miss 6,000-km electrification target for this year

Indian Railways has achieved 62% of its 6,000-km target this fiscal year

The government has recently come out with a road map to electrify 28,000 km in the next three financial years
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The government has recently come out with a road map to electrify 28,000 km in the next three financial years

Shine Jacob New Delhi
The Indian Railways may fall short of its electrification target of 6,000 kilometres for the 2018-19 financial year. As on March 18, the national transporter has completed electrification of 3,754 km, 8 per cent short of the 4,087 km achieved in 2017-18. 

To achieve the remaining 2,246 km in 13 days, the railways will have to do the work on 173 km on an average every day, a near-impossible task, given the average per day in 2018-19 has been 10.7 km so far. Even to achieve last year’s numbers, the railways will have to increase the pace of electrification to 26

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