The Northeast Frontier Railway has undertaken electrification of more than 50 percent of the total 6,242 km of railway lines by March 2020. A total of 534 km railway lines has already been electrified and an additional 2,631 km railway lines will be electrified by March 2020.

A total of 219 km railway tracks under the jurisdiction of Katihar Division of Northeast Frontier Railway was electrified in FY18, including Katihar Yard (37.51 km) and Katihar-Kumedpur-Malda Court (181.84 km) sections, and since then a total of 315 km of railway lines were electrified during FY19.

Electrification of 1,085 km railway tracks, including the Raninagar-Jalpaiguri-New Bongaigaon-Rangiya-Guwahati section, is supposed to be completed by December 2019.

Currently, 21 pairs of passenger trains and 14 goods train running on electric traction originate from the Northeast Frontier Railway and travel towards other zones. This figure was expected to increase as more and more sections gets electrified.

Once the entire section from Katihar to New Jalpaiguri is electrified, which is expected to be completed by July 2019, the change of engines from electric to diesel will take place at New Jalpaiguri.

The work on preparation of a detailed project report (DPR) is also in progress for sections where electrification has been sanctioned during FY19 and these include Rangiya-Rangapara-Harmuti-Naharlagun (339 km), Harmuti-Murkongselek (230 km), Badarpur-Silchar section along with Arunachal-Jiribam and Katakhal-Bhairabi sections.

The other sections are Badarpur-Karimganj-Agartala-Sabroom section along with Agartala-Akhaura and Karimganj-Mahishashan sections (590 km) and Mariani-Jorhat Town-Furkating and Tinsukia Jn-Makum Jn-Tirap along with Makum-Dangri section (174 km).