Question : PRESENT STATUS OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC OF J AND K

(a) the percentage of work completed in regard to lay of railway lines and other infrastructure between Jammu to Udhampur, Udhampur- Srinagar-Baramulla and along with the expenditure incurred thereon;

(b) the details of present status and trial, if any;

(c) the steps taken by the Government to complete the projects of Jammu and Kashmir and along with the expenditure likely to be incurred thereon;

(d) the compensation given to land oustees for these lines;

(e) whether the affected land oustees of Jammu and Kashmir State have been employment by the Railway;

(f) if so, the number of persons recruited during each of the last three years; and

(g) if not, steps taken by the Government thereon?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS ( SHRI R. VELU )

(a) to (g) : A statement is attached.

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (g) OF THE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2566 BY CHAUDHARY LAL SINGH AND SHRI ABDUL RASHID SHAHEEN TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 16.12.2004 REGARDING PRESENT STATUS OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC OF J AND K.

(a) to (c) The details of Jammu-Srinagar railway project are as under:-

S.N.	Name of	Estimated	Anticipa	Outlay	Present Status	Project	cost	ted	during	expendit	2004-05	ure upto	March	2004
1.	Jammu-	Rs. 515	Rs.	Rs.	The work has been	Udhampur	crore	482.80	10.44	completed and	(53.6	crore	crore	Commercial goods traffic	kms)	is running on this	section.
2.	Udhampur-	Rs. 5000	Rs.	Rs.	The overall progress of	Srinagar-	crore	1286.43	300.00	this section is about	Baramulla	crore	crore	38.5%. The work has	(287 kms)	been taken up in phases	and the progress is	given as under:-
i) Udhampur-Katra (km.	0-25): Earthwork,	tunnelling and	major/minor bridge	works are in progress.	The progress is about 89%.
ii) Katra-Qazigund (km.	25-167): For km.	25-30 land acquisition	has been completed and	tunnelling work is in	progress. For Km. 30-	167, land acquisition,	detailed construction	survey is in progress.	Tunnelling work is in	progress between km. 30-	50, where land is made	available. The progress	is about 10%.
iii) Qazigund-Baramulla	(km. 167-287):	Earthwork, bridge works,	etc. are in	progress. Out of 15122	kanals of land, 14,853	kanals of land has	been acquired. The	progress is about 75%.