49% increase in ECR income
East Central Railway received a total initial income of Rs.14184.38 crores with a significant increase in the income from all other sources including passenger traffic, freight, in the first 08 months of the current financial year 2021-22 i.e. from April to November, 2021. The initial income received up to the month of November of last year is 48.77 percent higher as compared to Rs.9534.19 crore. An income of Rs.1620.11 crore has been received from passenger traffic till November of the current financial year. This income is almost double as compared to the income received till November of the previous year. Whereas in November, 2021 alone, Rs. 224.05 crore was received from passenger traffic, which is 87.44 percent higher than the income from passenger traffic of Rs. 119.53 crore in the same period last year i.e. November, 2020.
Commendable freight loading by SER
South Eastern Railway has loaded 126.45 Million Tonnes of originating freight in the first eight months i.e. April to November of the current financial year (2021-22), as against 108.11 Million Tonnes loaded in the corresponding period of last year, registering a growth of about 17%. There is also a rise of 21.45% in originating freight revenue in comparison to the first eight months of the last fiscal. During April to November 2021, the revenue generation from originating freight loading was Rs 10474 crores against Rs. 8624 crores in the same period of the previous year. The main commodities of Freight loading during the first eight months of 2021-22 were Iron ore, Coal, Pig iron & Finished Steel, Cement, Fertilizer, Petroleum Products etc. SER has loaded 70.27 Million Tonnes of Iron ore during this period, which is 7.50% more than the corresponding period of previous fiscal.