Railways

Following the Mantra, “Hungry For Cargo”, Indian Railways has made sustained efforts to improve the ease of doing business as well as improve the service delivery at competitive prices which has resulted in new traffic coming to railways from both conventional and non-conventional commodity streams. The customer centric approach and work of business development units backed up by agile policy making has helped the Railways breach the 1400 MT Freight Loading mark for 1st time ever in Financial Year-2021-22. The Originating Freight Loading of Indian Railways for the FY 2021-22 stood at 1418.1 MT (provisional) which is 15% more than the previous best set in FY 2020-21 at 1233.2 MT.

• The railway sector in India aims to contribute about 1.5% to the country’s GDP by building infrastructure to support 45% of the modal freight share of the economy
• Two Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFC), one on the Western route (Jawaharlal Nehru Port to Dadri) and another on the Eastern route (Ludhiana to Dankuni), have been fast-tracked
• Freight earnings increased by 16% as compared to the same period of last year (INR 91127 Crores).
• The railway sector in India has the highest ever planned capital expenditure of $32 bn in 2022-23
• The average Freight Train speed has increased to 44.36 kmph during 2021-22 compared to 42.97kmph during 2020-21 (+3.23 %) (upto 31.12. 2021). National Rail Plan aims to increase share of freight traffic from current 27% to 45% by 2030.
• Electrification of 1,973 Route km (2,647 TKM) has been achieved during 2022-23, which is 41% higher as compared to corresponding period of  2021-22. In addition, 1,161 & 296 km of electrification of double lines & sidings respectively have also been completed till date. Thus, total 4100 TKM have been electrified during 2022-23.
• Record electrification of 6,366 RKMs has been achieved in IR history during FY 2021-22
• New Line/ Doubling/ Gauge Conversion: 2904 km was achieved in FY 2021-22 which is 23% higher than last year. It is also the Highest ever commissioning (excluding DFC)
• The IR achieved the Highest ever Electric Loco Production & induction of 1,110 Locos in FY 2021-22. With the production of 614 Electric Locomotives in FY 2022-23, till 30th November from 490 electric locomotives during the same period last year, Indian Railways has recorded a growth of 25.3%. 
• 6 pairs of Vande Bharat Express and 4 pairs of Tejas Express services are being operated by Indian Railways
• During FY22 till 30th November, 109 TKM of New Line, 102 TKM of Gauge Conversion and 1811 TKM of multi tracking has been completed. 
• Currently, a total of 2359 trips of Kisan Rail trains have been operated on 167 routes, wherein nearly 7.9 lakh tones of consignments have been transported.