Indian Railways Earning

The railways has inched ahead of 2019's freight loading by managing to load 3.13 MT of goods on July 27 as compared to 3.12 MT on the same date last year

Indian Railways should immediately corporatise its production units and construction wing, segregate its passenger and freight businesses, and restructure the Railway Board

Ride so far too costly, say the latter; attempt now to sweeten parking spot deal for the cab aggregators

The RTI revealed railways earned a revenue of Rs 13,398.92 crore from passenger fares in April-June quarter which dipped to Rs 13,243.81 crore in the July-September quarter

During the month of June 2018, 391 cases of transfer of reserved journey tickets were detected and Rs. 400,000 recovered as penalty

Meanwhile, during the financial year, railways loaded 1,161.66 million tonne freight, up 4.7 per cent from 1,108.79 million tonne last year

Govt's refusal to make up for loss via subsidy hurting transporters

Under the flexi fare formula, base fare increases from 10% to 50%

The revenue generated through tickets in 2015-2016 was Rs 453.2393 billion while in the corresponding period next year it increased by Rs 23.5416 billion