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Railway Budget 2016: Indian Railways in numbers

By Oneindia Staff Writer

| Updated: Thursday, February 25, 2016, 11:03 [IST]

New Delhi, Feb 26: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will present his second Railway Budget on Thursday, Feb 26. Here are some numbers related to the Railway Budget: [Follow Live Updates on Railway Budget 2015]

[Also Read: Railway Budget 2016: History of Indian Railways in years]

Railway Budget 2016 — Railway Budget 2016

23 million: The number of passengers travel in railways everyday. To carry this many people, the railway runs 12,617 trains everyday connecting 7,172 stations across India.

Rs 1.4 lakh crore ($ 23 billion) is the annual revenue the railways earn every year.

The railways require Rs 1.82 lakh crore for completion of 359 pending projects.

In the last three decades, only 317 of the 676 sanctioned projects have been completed.

The railways incur a loss of Rs 26,000 crore every year on subsidizing passenger fares.

The freight contributes 67 per cent of the railways' earnings. The share of freight carried by the railways has declined from 89 per cent in 1950-51 to 31 per cent.

The railways carry 2.65 million tonnes of cargo very day.

The operating ratio of the Indian Railways is 94 per cent, which means it saves just 6 paise on every 100 paise

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The number of people working in the railways: Rs 13.1 lakh

The average number of kilometres added every year to rail route since independence: 200 km

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