Recovery tracker: More visits to transit stations, freight shows gains

Monday morning traffic is still over 40% below 2019 levels in key cities

The Indian railways showed a rise in goods transported for the latest week, even as some other indicators of economic activity held steady.

Business Standard tracks pollution levels, mobility based on location data and traffic congestion; besides rail and power generation numbers. They provide a more current picture of the economy ahead of the release of official numbers, such as gross domestic product, which are often released with a lag. Analysts globally have been tracking similar numbers in a bid to get a sense of the situation on the ground amid the Covid-19 pandemic.