The South Central Railway (SCR) zone has earned gross basic revenue of Rs 18,973.14 crore during the financial year 2022-23, which is the highest revenue earned by the zone since its inception, a senior official said on Monday.
“Backed by proactive planning and dedicated efforts by Team SCR across all segments of its operations, the zone achieved its best ever earnings in 2022-23 by registering Rs 18,973.14 crore in core revenue as compared to Rs 15,708.88 crore in 2018-19,” SCR General Manager Arun Kumar Jain told reporters. Zone earned Rs 14,266 crore in 2021-22.
He said that the Zone took proactive initiatives to meet the needs of freight customers with initiatives like development of goods shed, implementation of both tariff and non-tariff incentive measures, which resulted in attracting new traffic towards Railways.
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The previous best was achieved in 2018-19
This in turn has contributed to South Central Railway achieving its best ever freight traffic and revenue of 131.854 million tonnes and Rs 13,051.10 crore respectively, he added. The previous best performance was achieved in 2018-19, with freight traffic and revenue at 122.5 million tonnes and Rs 10,954.69 crore, respectively.
On the passenger front, SCR is set to achieve its best ever passenger revenue of Rs 5,140.70 crore in 2022-23 (as against the previous best of Rs 4,089.78 crore in 2018-19), Jain said.
In terms of passengers, 255.59 million originating passengers traveled through SCR in 2022-23 as compared to 127.4 million in 2021-22.
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In terms of track addition, a record 384.42 km were added during 2022-23 as against the previous best of 344 km in 2021-22. While 50.015 km of new lines, 151.486 km of double line and 182.915 km of third lines were added to the rail network during the financial year 2022-23.
With regard to electrification, Jain said the zone saw a record 1,016.9 km electrification in SCR during 2022-23. SCR GM said that this is not only the highest electrification achieved by a zone in a financial year, but also the highest achieved by any zone in Indian Railways during the last financial year.