Record Number of New Trains Run This Year, Speeds Improved, 266 km Doubling Planned: General Manager, SWR [Full Text of Speech]

Ajay Kumar Singh, General Manager of South Western Railway briefed the gathering on several achievements of the zone over the year so far in his Republic Day Speech. Full text… Read more

Better Safety, Amenities, Punctuality and Financial Performance Achieved This Year: General Manager, NFR

The General Manager outlined various achievements of the Northeast Frontier Railway over the course of the year so far in his annual Republic Day speech Read more

CR: 266 Crores Earned from Mission Zero Scrap

Up to mid-January of this financial year, Central Railway have sold Rs. 266 crore worth scrap Rails, P-way material, condemned coaches, wagons and locomotives against Rs. 208 crore worth scrap… Read more

Indian Railways Goods Earnings Remain Lower YoY, Passenger Earnings Improve

Indian Railways continued to register a fall in freight revenues from April to December 2019 period over the same period last year. Read more

Indian Railways Passenger and Freight Earnings Down in 8 Months of FY20

Slowing Demand and pessimistic economic outlook have upset the Indian Railways' financial plans for the year, as freight and passenger earnings have not only missed targets but also declined as… Read more

Indian Railways Earned Rs. 51,066 Crores From Passenger Fares in FY18-19

During the Financial Year 2018-19, Passenger traffic on Indian Railways has registered a growth of 1.8% as compared to the previous year Read more

WR: UTS App Ticket Sales See 175% Growth

Total tickets sold through UTS Mobile App have increased from 34 lakh during the period from April – Nov in the financial year 2018-19 to 93.8 lakh during the same… Read more

CAG Report on Indian Railways: Questions Increased Reliance on External Borrowings, Gross Budgetary Support

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has flagged the rising dependence of the Indian Railways on external funds for capital expenditure as a problem. Read more

IR Needs to Focus on Higher Internal Revenue Generation: CAG Report

Analysing the national transport behemoth’s numbers both bottom-up and top-down, the CAG concluded that Indian Railways (IR) could not have shown a surplus of earnings (of Rs 1,665.61 crore) over… Read more

CAG on Railways: Declining Revenue Surplus, 95% of Freight Profits Used to Subsudize Passenger Ops Losses

Operating Ratio of 98.44 per cent was the worst in the last ten years. Indian Railways, in fact, would have ended up with a negative balance of ₹5,676.29 crore instead… Read more