FREIGHT MARKET SHARE OF RAILWAYS
LOK SABHA
The revenue earned
by the Railways through Freight and Passenger Traffic during last
three years is as under:-
| YEAR |
FREIGHT |
PASSENGER (Rs. In crores) |
| 1999-2000 |
22060.99 |
9581.07 |
| 2000-2001 |
23305.10 |
10515.07 |
| 2001-2002 |
24845.40 |
11196.45 |
The Ministry of Railways
are aware of the trends in road freight charges and the stiff
competition posed by the development of National Highways specially
during the last five years. With the development of National Highways,
this competition will further increase. Keeping this in view,
the Railways have taken the following steps to face the competition:
- Rationalisation of Freight structure
by reducing number of classes and the ratio between the highest
and lowest freight rates from 8.0 to 3.3.
- Concessional freight rate under
Station-to-Station rate scheme enhanced to face competition.
- Mini rake of 20 bogie wagons allowed
at train load rates for distance upto 300 kms.
- Computerisation of freight movement
to ensure online information on movement of freight trains.
- High speed goods trains at 100
Kmph to reduce transit time.
- Development of integrated transport
facilities through terminal warehousing scheme,
- Reduced freight for trainload
movement of prescribed number of wagons.
- Block rakes for larger number
of two point destinations.
- Introduction of time-tabled Parcel
Express trains between Metropolitan cities to retrieve piecemeal
traffic.
This information
was given by Shri Bandaru Dattattraya, Minister of State for Railways
in a written reply to a question by S/shri A.Venkatesh Naik, Ramsheth
Thakur; Ashok.N.Mohal and G.S.Basavaraj in the Lok Sabha today.
