Railways gains lost ground, betters last year's August loading by 7% so far

While on August 12, the railways loaded 3.12 MT of freight, last year on this day, it loaded 2.74 MT

The railways is steadily gaining lost ground in freight loading by surpassing its last year's freight figures for August so far by 7 per cent, an achievement given that it was hit hard by the coronavirus crisis since March.

According to official figures, the railways which first surpassed its last year's loading by just 0.3 per cent on July 27 as compared to the loading done on the same day in FY 2019-2020, repeated the feat on August 12 and August 13, by loading 14 per cent and 8 per cent more than what it did on these days last year.

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