PROTRACTED DELAY IN INDIAN RAILWAYS PROJECTS
2024-02-26 04:48 -Indian Railways 848 projects, each costing Rs.150 crore and more, has been delayed by an average of over three years. According to a latest flash report by the Infrastructure and Project Monitoring Division of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, out of 1, 820 projects being monitored, 56 are ahead of schedule, 618 on schedule, 431 projects reported cost overruns, and 268 projects reported both cost and time over-runs in terms of their original project implementation schedule.