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Missed deadline Promise · High confidence

In February 2025 the Railway Minister said 100% electrification would be completed in FY 2025-26; by July 2026 PIB reported 99.6% of the broad-gauge network electrified, with residual sections still under execution after the deadline passed.

Test case in Suite B · score 0.25

English · ParaphrasedMore than 97 per cent of the Indian Railways is already electrified, and by FY26, it is expected to be 100 per cent electrified.

Paraphrased from news reports; not a verbatim quote.

Speaker

Ashwini Vaishnaw

Party

BJP

Office

Union Minister of Railways

Venue

Madhya Pradesh Global Investors Summit 2025, Bhopal (addressed via video conferencing)

Date

2025-02-24

Deadline

2026-03-31

Topics

railways, infrastructure

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Grounding check

2 of 2 checkable evidence pages contain the cited figures

Video

Indian Railways to be 100% electrified by FY26: Ashwini Vaishnaw (news)

Transcript / text sources

• PIB: Indian Railways marching towards Net Zero - Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw
• PIB: 'Amazing' Union Budget, says Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

Evidence

Government's response

Analysis

At the Madhya Pradesh Global Investors Summit on 24 February 2025, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said more than 97% of Indian Railways was already electrified and that 100% electrification was expected in FY 2025-26.

PIB reported about 99.2% of the broad-gauge network electrified as of November 2025 and about 99.6% as of July 2026; the residual stretches (574 route km, 0.8%, across five states at the end of 2025) remain under execution. The government states 100% electrification has been completed across 14 zones and 25 states/UTs.

The stated FY 2025-26 deadline (31 March 2026) passed without the network reaching 100%, so the claim is recorded as missed-deadline, while noting the network is close to completion.

Confidence in verdict & review

Confidence in verdict

High

Review status

draft

Last reviewed

2026-10-17

Notes

Vaishnaw has repeated the 100%-by-FY26 target at multiple venues; this entry uses the 24 February 2025 PIB release. Some later PIB statements from other ministers (e.g. Amit Shah, September 2026) describe 100% electrification as imminent rather than complete. Quotation is from ETEnergyworld reporting, not a transcript, so not marked verbatim. [ingest: 3 evidence link(s) blocked/unreachable to the checker; verify manually]