Indian Railways is on its track to record the best ever performance in its recorded history in terms of the output from the freight business, total revenue, track construction in the financial year 2023-24, the Ministry of Railways said in a press release on Friday.
As per the preliminary data, IR has crossed an originating freight loading of 1500MT on March 15. Previously, IR had achieved the best ever Freight loading of 1512MT during FY2022-23.
During this FY2023-24, total revenue of Indian Railways stands at ₹2.40 lakh crore as on date. Last year on March 15, total revenue was ₹2.23 lakh crore, an increment of ₹17,000 crore. Total expenditure of Indian Railways stands at ₹2.26 lakh crore in this FY 2023-24.
Total number of passengers travelled during FY2023-24 stands at 648 crore, an increment of 52 crore as compared to the figures of the same period of last year. The total number of passengers travelled last year was 596 crore.
In this financial year as on date, Indian Railways has constructed 5,100km of new tracks. In this FY, average daily track comes out to be more than 14km per day, the ministry said.