The Ministry of
Railways has issued a Notification revising the jurisdiction
of 23 Railway Divisions and fixing the jurisdiction of eight
newly created Divisions with immediate effect.
While the area
of jurisdiction of Nanded, Agra, Guntur, Raipur, Ranchi,
Pune, Rangia and Ahmedabad, the eight newly created
Divisions has been fixed, the area of jurisdiction of the 23
existing Divisions revised, the important being Hubli, Guntakal
and Jhansi.
As for Jhansi
Division, 133 Km. long Agra-Palwal and 40 Km. long Palwal-Tughlakabad
routes have been transferred to newly created Agra Division.
At the same time, 91 Km. long Manikpur-Naini section
of Jabalpur Division has been brought under the jurisdiction
of Jhansi Division. The total area of Jhansi Division is now
pegged at 1461 Route Kilometres (RTKMs) from the earlier 1543
RTKMs. In the case of Guntakal Division, its area of
jurisdiction has been brought down from 1573 RTKMs to 1397 RTKMs.
Accordingly, 137 Km. long Donkonda-Nandiyal section has
been transferred to Guntur Division, 65 route Km. Hospet-Bellary
section and 23 Route Kilometres(RTKMs) Toranagallu-Ranjitpura
section transferred to Hubli Division. Besides, 49 RTKMs
Guntakal-Bellary metre gauge section has been transferred
to Hubli Division.
The jurisdiction
of Hubli Division on newly created South-Western Railway
Zone has been revised. Accordingly, 1365 RTKMs long existing
jurisdiction has been revised to 1076 RTKMs residual jurisdiction.
The 328 Km. long Pune-Miraj-Kolhapur section has been
transferred to Pune Division and 49 RTKMs Guntakal-Bellary
metre gauge section to Guntakal Division. The 65 RTKMs Hospet-Bellary
section and 23 RTKMs Toranagallu-Ranjitpura section
have been transferred to Hubli Division.
Jurisdiction of
other Divisions at Jabalpur, Mumbai, Sholapur, Allahabad,
Kota, Jaipur, Izatnagar, Vijayawada, Secunderabad, Hyderabad,
Bilaspur, Delhi, Chakradarpur, Adra, Alipurduar, Vadodara,
Rajkot, Ajmer, Ratlam and Bikaner have also been
revised and their area of jurisdiction re-fixed.
The Notification
seeks to modify the original Notification of July 4, 2002, under
which seven new zones were created by carving out of the existing
nine Zonal Railways. Of these, two new Zones, East Central Railway
at Hajipur and North Western Railway at Jaipur
have become fully functional with effect from October 1 last
year and the remaining five will become functional from April
this year.
