ALLOCATION FOR ACD
Total approved cost
of provision of Anti-Collision Device (ACD), including ACD survey,
on Indian Railway is Rs. 190.92 crores. Expenditure of approximate
Rs. 11.26 crores has been made against this till date.
It is proposed
to provide ACD system on Indian Railway progressively. To start
with, provision of ACD on about 3500 route kilometers of Northeast
Frontier Railway, Southern Railway, South Central Railway and
Northern Railway have been taken up. Besides, ACD survey have
been sanctioned on additional 10,000 route kms. to cover selected
routes on Indian Railways.
This information
was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Bandaru Dattatraya
in a written reply to a question from Shri Nandi Yellaiah in the
Rajya Sabha today.
