Railways operating record-breaking 9,111 trips during summer season of 2024
This marks a substantial rise compared to the summer of 2023, where a total of 6,369 trips were offered.
This marks a substantial rise compared to the summer of 2023, where a total of 6,369 trips were offered.
Indian Railways is set to record the best ever performance in its recorded history in terms of the output from the freight business, total revenue and track laying in the Financial year 2023-24, Ministry of Railways said on Friday.
Tripura CM Saha was traveling to Howrah in one of the semi-high-speed Vande Bharat trains, which he boarded from Maldaha.
On a cumulative basis from April 2023 - February 2024, freight loading of 1434.01 MT was achieved by Indian railways against last year’s loading of 1367.5 MT, an improvement of approximately 66.51 MT over last year’s loading for the same period.
Formally opened in April 1930 by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Sir Malcolm Hailey, the Railways’ apex training centre had its life cut short. The IR Board viewed it as an “expensive luxury” amidst the Rs 10 crore-loss Railways suffered in the year then.
Transporting cars via rail mode is also helping the country's largest passenger car maker offset nearly 3,000 tonnes of carbon emissions, MSI said.
While the Railways has given private players the freedom to fix the fare to be charged from passengers, they will also have the freedom to explore fresh avenues to generate revenue, according to the RFQ.
'The previous best was 99.54 per cent on June 23, with one train getting delayed,' the official said.
This is the first initiative for private investment for running passenger trains on the Indian Railways network.
It said that the company was supposed to complete the work by 2019, but only 20 per cent of the work has been completed so far.