The South Central Railway (SCR) Zone has earned a Gross Originating Revenue of Rs 18,973.14 crore throughout fiscal 2022-23, which is the highest originating income earned by the Zone since its inception, a senior official mentioned on Monday.
“Backed by proactive planning and dedicated efforts by Team SCR on all segments of its operation, the Zone achieved its best-ever earnings in 2022-23 by recording Rs 18,973.14 crore in Originating Revenue compared to its best-ever earning of Rs 15,708.88 crore in 2018-19,” SCR General Manager Arun Kumar Jain instructed reporters. In 2021-22, the Zone earned Rs.14,266 crore.
The Zone took proactive initiatives to handle the wants of the freight prospects with initiatives like the event of the products shed, implementation of each tariff and non-tariff incentive measures and so forth, which resulted in new site visitors being attracted in the direction of Railways, he mentioned.
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Previous greatest was achieved in 2018-19
This has in flip contributed in the direction of SCR attaining the all-time originating freight loading and income of 131.854 million tonnes and Rs 13,051.10 crore respectively, he mentioned. The earlier greatest efficiency was achieved in 2018-19 whereby originating freight loading and income have been 122.5 million tonnes and Rs 10,954.69 crore, respectively.
On the passenger entrance, SCR achieved its best-ever originating passenger Revenue of Rs 5,140.70 crore in 2022-23 (towards the earlier greatest of Rs 4,089.78 crore in 2018-19), Jain mentioned.
In phrases of passengers, 255.59 million originating passengers travelled from SCR in 2022-23 in comparison with 127.4 million in 2021-22.
Track addition on giant scale
In phrases of monitor addition, a report 384.42 km have been added throughout 2022-23 in comparison with the earlier greatest of 344 km in 2021-22. While 50.015 km of new strains have been added throughout FY 2022-23, 151.486 km of the double line and 182.915 km of third strains have been added to the rail community.
With regard to electrification, Jain mentioned the Zone witnessed a report 1,016.9 km being electrified in SCR throughout 2022-23. This isn’t solely the highest electrification achieved by the Zone in any monetary yr but in addition the highest achieved by any Zone over the last monetary yr throughout the Indian Railways, the SCR GM added.
