Railway Zones and Divisions in the Country

At present there are 17 Railway Zones and 68 Divisions in the country. The details are given below:

RAILWAY/HEADQUARTERS	DIVISIONS
Central /Mumbai	Mumbai (CSTM), Bhusawal, Nagpur, Solapur, Pune.
Eastern/Kolkata	Asansol, Howrah, Malda, Sealdah.
East Central/ Hajipur	Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur, Sonpur.
East Coast/Bhubaneswar	Khurda Road, Sambalpur, Waltair.
Northern/ New Delhi	Ambala, Delhi, Lucknow, Moradabad, Ferozpur.
North Central/Allahabad	Allahabad, Agra, Jhansi.
North Eastern/Gorakhpur	Lucknow, Izzatnager, Varanasi.
Northeast Frontier /Guwahati	Katihar, Alipurduar, Rangiya, Lumding, Tinsukia.
North Western/ Jaipur	Ajmer, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur.
Southern/Chennai	Chennai, Madurai, Palghat, Trichy, Trivandrum, Salem.
South Central/Secunderabad	Guntakal, Guntur, Hyderabad, Nanded, Secunderabad, Vijayawada.
South  Eastern/Kolkata	Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi.
South East Central/Bilaspur	Bilaspur, Nagpur, Raipur
South Western/Hubli	Bangalore, Hubli, Mysore
Western/Mumbai	Mumbai (Central), Vadodara, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar.
West Central/Jabalpur	Bhopal, Jabalpur, Kota.
Metro/Kolkata	Not applicable.

 Creation of three new divisions at Gulbarga, Jammu and Silchar was announced by the Hon’ble Minister for Railways during the course of discussions on the “Vote on Account” Budget of Railways 2014-15 in Rajya Sabha on 18.02.2014. Action has been initiated by the Ministry of Railways and Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) for two of the three divisions viz Gulbarga and Jammu have already been received from the Zonal Railways concerned. Presently, these three divisions are not functional.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on 04.03.2016 (Friday).