The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in a recent move has given its approval for taking up Vizianagaram and Titlagarh 3rd line project with a length of 264.6 km., commanding an investment worth Rs.2,335.68-cr with completion period of five years, said railway sources, elaborating further that the 3rd line is an alternative route to the over-burdened existing line. This link also opens an alternative route to oversaturated Kharagpur – Jharsuguda section; Howrah-Mumbai Grand Trunk Route and Howrah-Chennai section main line. Rayagada and Kalahandi districts of Odisha and Vizianagaram and Babbili districts of Andhra Pradesh would also get benefit of its commissioning. As a matter of fact, Vizianagaram and Titlagarh is a double line non-electrified section of Jharsuguda-Vizianagaram line and that the section is oversaturated with current capacity utilization of 106% and there is a huge detention to rolling stock.
