Vision 2020 - Transportation Research Group of India

Government of India
Ministry of Railways
(Railway Board)
CHAPTER-V
Goals at a glance for 2020
5.0 By 2020, IR would strive to
a) Establish quality of service benchmarked to the best of the Railway systems in the world.
b) Expand its route network at the rate of 2500 kms per annum. By 2020, 25,000 kms of new line will be
added and almost the entire network (barring the hill and heritage railways) would be in Broad Gauge.
This would include completion of the pending shelf of new line projects of 11985 kms. More than
30,000 kms of route would be of double/multiple lines. Electrification of 14,000 kms of routes would
take the total length of electrified route to 33,000 kms. This would include all inter- metro links and the
other busy corridors.
c) Have more than 6000 kms for quadrupled lines with segregation of passenger and freight services into
separate double-line corridors. This shall include Delhi-Kolkata, Delhi-Mumbai, Kolkata-Mumbai and
Delhi-Chennai routes. All these routes would have separate dedicated freight corridors and highspeed
passenger corridors.
d) Raise speeds of passenger trains from 130 (110) kmph to 160-200 kmph on segregated routes and
speed of freight trains from 60-70 kmph to 100 kmph.
e) Virtually attain a state of "availability on demand" in freight, passenger and parcel services.
f) Design and deliver targeted services for transport of perishables, agri-produce and products of small
and medium enterprises (SMEs) such as auto-hubs and others similar clusters.
g) Target to achieve Zero accidents.
h) Target to achieve Zero failures in equipments.
i) Utilize at least 10% of its energy requirement from renewable sources and institute a foolproof ecofriendly
waste management system.
j) Complete 4 high-speed corridors of (2000 kms) and plan development of 8 others.
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