HUBBALI: In the last five years, a whopping six-fold increase has been recorded in the electrification of railway lines under the South Western Railway (SWR) network. In the current fiscal year, the Railway zone has targeted to electrify 692 route kilometers.
The line electrification work has gained pace in the past few years. In 2016, only 208 kilometers of line, which is 10 per cent of the total railway network of the SWR, was electrified. But it has increased to 1,233 kilometers by March 2021, covering 34 per cent of the entire network.
