Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi : The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for doubling of Barabanki-Akbarpur railway line at an estimated cost of Rs.116.09 crore and expected completion cost of Rs.1310.23 crore. The 161 km long railway line is expected to be completed by 2021-22.
Doubling of the line will greatly ease the ever increasing passenger and freight traffic on Barabanki-Akbarpur route thereby increasing the revenue of Railways. Besides travelling people, industries in and around Barabanki-Akbarpur route will have additional transport capacity to meet their requirements. The districts of Barabanki and Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh will be benefited by this project.
The Barabanki-Akbarpur section falls in Lucknow Division of Northern Railways. At present detention of trains in Barabanki to Varanasi is high and express trains are taking up to 7-15 hours in covering a distance of 323 km. Present capacity utilization from Barabanki to Faizabad is 146.5% and from Faizabad to Akbarpur it is 152.6%. This doubling will speed up the operation and also provide additional capacity for meeting the requirement of increase in traffic in future.
