Indian Railways Become Biggest Electrified Rail System Globally

Indian Railways has become one of the most extensively electrified rail systems in the world. Nearly all of India’s 70-thousand route-kilometre broad-gauge network is now powered by electricity. 

Till November last year, over 99 percent of



its entire network was already electrified, marking a major milestone. 

The pace of electrification has risen sharply – from about one and a half kilometres per day between 2004 and 2014 to over 15 kilometres per day in the last six years.