Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal announced “South Coast Railway (SCoR)” as a new Zone of Indian Railways.
About:
Background: As per item 8 of Schedule 13 (Infrastructure) of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014, Indian Railways was required to examine establishing a new railway zone in the successor State of Andhra Pradesh.
Name: In this background, it has been decided to create a new zone named “South Coast Railway (SCoR)”.
HQ of new zone: Visakhapatnam.
Components: The new zone will comprise of existing Guntakal, Guntur and Vijayawada divisions. Waltair division shall be split into two parts.
One part of Waltair division will be incorporated in the new zone i.e. in South Coast Railway and will be merged with the neighbouring Vijaywada division.
Remaining portion of Waltair division shall be converted into a new division with headquarter at Rayagada under East Coast Railway (ECoR).
South Central Railway will comprise of Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Nanded divisions.
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