Overview
- Railway Board chairman Satish Kumar directed all zones to file specific city-wise plans with timelines and defined outcomes toward the 2030 goal.
- Capacity increases will be phased over the next five years, with actions classified as immediate, short-term and long-term for both suburban and non-suburban traffic.
- Western Railway outlined Mumbai works including new Jogeshwari and Vasai Road termini, enabling about 65 additional long-distance trains and capacity for roughly 165 more suburban services.
- Central Railway detailed projects to support 584 additional suburban services in Mumbai along with new or expanded coaching terminals at Panvel–Kalamboli, Kalyan, Parel and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus.
- Early disclosures also flagged expansions in Guwahati and across Bhubaneswar–Puri–Visakhapatnam, while Congress MP Shashi Tharoor asked the minister to add Thiruvananthapuram after its omission from the 48-city list.