(a) The railway projects costing more than Rs. 100 crore that
have not been completed as per their target set for
completion project-wise;
(b) the cost over-run in respect of these projects for running
behind their respective target time, project-wise; and
(c) the present position of these projects?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI DIGVIJAY SINGH )
(a) to (c) : Due to continuing scarcity of resources, the
availability of funds for various projects in any
particular year is known only in the beginning of that
year. Consequently, when taking up a new project, as the
schedule of deployment of funds ahead for that work can not
be laid down, it has not been possible to fix time schedule
for completion of such works. It is, therefore, not
possible to determine the time over-run for the project.
Cost over-run can be calculated in those cases
where a time schedule for completion of the project has
been fixed and full matching availability of resources
is assured. This has not been possible for Railway
projects, where the shelf of projects is very large when
compared to the availability of resources for
deployment. In view of this, it would be difficult to
calculate time or cost over-runs for Railway projects.