Recovery tracker: Improvement in power, freight volumes and revenue

Traffic still down by nearly a fifth from 2019 levels

Electricity generation and Indian Railways numbers rallied after trending downward in the recent past.

Power generation showed an uptick last week both week-on-week and also compared to 2020 and 2019 levels. Power utilities across the country generated over 3,900 million units of electricity on average per day during the week ending September 26, 2021, This was over 2 per cent higher than the corresponding week in 2020 and more than 8 per cent higher than 2019. Growth had been in negative territory in the previous week (see chart 1).

The Indian Railways showed higher growth in terms of both goods