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Railways’ target: Laying 9.5 km of tracks every day.

NEW DELHI: Indian Railways has set a daily target of laying 9.

5 km of tracks per day as against the 100 meters of tracks the railways lays manually on an average.

The US made new track laying machines being manufactured by Harsco will be used majorly across India from now on.

It is for the first time that the railways will be working on such a deadline, a senior railway ministry official said.

Railway minister Suresh Prabhu has also instructed all his officials to wind up the long pending projects on priority basis.

31 lakh crore the highest-ever for capacity expansion in the next financial year.

The ministry is also going to undertake major track renewal works to make the railway network safer in the wake of the recent train derailment cases.

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