Freight, passenger loading earns ECoR Rs 2,030 crore

Bhubaneswar, Nov 4 (UNI) East Coast Railway (ECoR) has earned Rs 2,030 crore by increasing its freight loading and passenger carrying capacity during the first half of the current fiscal.

During the first half from April to September, the ECoR had loaded 30.57 million tonnes of freight by registering an increase of 8.98 per cent than the corresponding period of last financial year and earned Rs 1,889.12 crore which accounted a rise of 14.22 per cent revenue compare to the 2005-06 financial year.

On passenger traffic, the ECoR had carried 25.14 millions of passenger by registering an increase of 14.38 per cent than the corresponding period of last financial.

This had earned the ECoR Rs 210.99 crore, an increase of 15.30 per cent than the corresponding period of last year.

ECoR statement here claimed that the spectalcular growth has been achieved even after disruption in train movement due to agitations, rail-roko, heavy rainfall and naxalities activities in the revenue generating areas.

The region had witnessed a record of 15 low-pressure resulting nearly 34 per cent rise in the rainfall during the last monsoon.

The major commodity carried by the ECoR included 22.08 million tonnes of coal, 6.47 million tonnes iron ore, 1.34 million tonnes of finished steel, 2.94 million tonnes of export ore and 2.16 million tonnes of fertiliser.

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