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Maharashtra's most delayed railway project stares at yet another deadline

The Belapur-Seawoods Uran railway is still not on track after 18 years; phase I of the project - Nerul to Kharkopar - was commissioned in 2018

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The project has a fresh deadline of March 2022, with allied works expected to be complete by March 2025.

The project has a fresh deadline of March 2022, with allied works expected to be complete by March 2025.

 The Belapur-Seawoods Uran suburban railway being built by the Central Railway and the City Industrial Development Corporation Limited (CIDCO), has the distinction of being the most delayed railway project in Maharashtra. It has a time run over of 216 months that is 18 years as per the ministry of statistics and programme implementation. The project cost has risen from the original Rs 495.44 crore to R 2,980.41 crore of which Rs 1,768.25 has been the expenditure so far.

The infrastructure and project monitoring division of the union ministry of statistics and programme implementation monitors central sector projects costing more than Rs 150 crore in 16 sectors. The latest update in February and that in the quarterly update of December 2020 states that the project now has a fresh deadline of March 2022, with allied works expected to be complete by March 2025.

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