Indian Railways Earning

Railways staring at Rs 35,000-40,000 crore drop in earnings this fiscal

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

How to transform Indian Railways

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

Railways hails cab aggregators for parking slots; Uber, Ola not interested

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

Slowdown takes a Rs 4,000 crore toll on Indian Railways' earnings

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

Central Railway earns Rs 593.6 mn from ticketless, irregular travellers

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

Indian railways posts highest ever passenger earnings in 2017-18

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

Indian Railways charge less than half of cost from passengers

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

Railways earning stands at Rs 6.7 bn through flexi fare system

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

Railway earnings from ticket sales surge by over Rs 20 bn in 2016-17

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