Eastern Railway achieves commendable performance

Kolkata Mar 15 (UNI) South Eastern Railway has achieved commendable performance in revenue earning freight loading during the first eleven months of the current financial year (April 2005, to February 2006).

During this period, South Eastern Railway had loaded 77.44 million ton of revenue earning freight, 11.50 million ton more than the corresponding period last year, thus registering a growth of 17.44 per cent.

The major contribution to achieve this remarkable performance in freight traffic during the above period was carrying of raw materials to steel plants. During the period, S E Railway had achieved a remarkable loading of 22.47 million tonnes of raw materials to steel plants, 3.64 million tonnes more as compared to the corresponding period previous year.

The other components of loading were 18.07 million ton of general merchandised goods, 17.49 million ton of coal, 7.10 million ton of finished products from steel plants, 6.04 million ton of export ore, 4.31 million ton of cement and 1.39 million ton of POL.

As a result of this commendable performance, S E Railway had been able to generate originating freight earnings of Rs 3582.23 crore, Rs 869.05 crore more than the corresponding period last year registering a growth of 32.03 per cent.

UNI XC SJC VD BD1836