Railways exceed loco, coach production targets

New Delhi, Mar 27: The Diesel Locomotive Works, Integral Coach Factory and Rail Wheel Factory -- the profit-making production units of the Railways, exceeded the production targets of locos, coaches and axles during the current financial year.

During the cumulative period up to February, all the production units -- Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW), Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Rail Coach Factort (RCF) and Rail Wheel Factory (RWF) -- exceeded the respective targets of production.

CLW produced 114 electric locos against the target of 114 during April 2005-February 2006. DLW produced 135 locos against the target of 131; ICF manufactured 1015 coaches against the target of 991; RCF produced 1122 coaches against the target of 1089 and RWF produced 46560 axles against the target of 45008 for this period.

However, the production of wheels by RWF was 106748 against the target of 108247 wheels during the same period.

The total loading by the Railways during February this year exceeded the target by 2.05 million tonnes. During this period, the loading was also more than the target on all Railways except Eastern, Northern, North Central, South East Central and South Western Railways.

The Railways carried 57.77 million tonnes of freight traffic during this period, exceeding both the target as also when compared to the same period last year by 2.05 million tonnes and 7.56 million tonnes respectively.

The total number of passengers booked during February this year was 464.82 million compared to 426.40 million during the same period last year, registering an increase of 9.01 per cent.

Further, during this period, there were no accidents on the Central, Eastern, North Central and South Eastern Railways. The number of accidents during the same period were less on Northern and North Frontier Railways compared to the same period last year.

The punctuality of mail/express trains (broad gauge) during this period showed improvement on all Railways, except Southern, South Eastern, South Western, Western and West Central Railways as compared to the corresponding period last year.

UNI