Andhra Pradesh to get new Railway zone: Piyush Goyal

Southern Coast Railway will be a new zone of the Indian Railways. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal told this to reporters in New Delhi yesterday. This new 18th railway zone of the country will be headquartered at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. 

The new zone will comprise the existing Guntakal, Guntur and Vijayawada divisions that currently fall under the South Central Railway.Mr. Goyal said the South Central Railway will then consist of the Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Nanded



divisions.

The cost of creating infrastructure for a new zone, according to an internal assessment of the Railways, is more than 205 crore rupees. 

The Indian Railways' operations are currently divided into 17 zones, which are further sub-divided into divisions, each having a divisional headquarter. There are a total of 73 divisions at present.

In 2002-2003, seven new zones and eight new divisions were created.