In a bid to preserve the provide of vital commodities moving, Indian Railways’ freight and parcel unique trains have been traversing across the nation constantly. In continuation to this, the Western Railway zone has run 98 parcel trains among 1 April 2021 and 10 May 2021 to transport vital things to numerous components of India. The loading in goods trains, throughout this period, recorded 8 million tonnes as compared to 5.22 million tonnes in the last year’s corresponding period, which is an boost of 53.26 per cent. According to a press release issued by Western Railways, from 1 April to 10 May, the zone by way of its numerous parcel unique trains has transported things weighing more than 36 thousand tonnes, which integrated agricultural generate, milk, healthcare gear, medicines, fish, and so on.
According to the zonal railways, the income generated by way of this transportation of vital things has been about Rs 12.44 crore. As numerous as 20 milk unique trains had been operated by the Western Railways, with a load of more than 14 thousand tonnes and one hundred per cent utilization of the wagons. Similarly, to transport vital commodities, 23 COVID-19 unique parcel trains had been also run with a load of about 4593 tonnes. In addition to this, as numerous as 17 indented rakes carrying 8814 tonnes had been operated with one hundred per cent utilization. During this period, 38 Kisan Rail trains with load of about 8733 tonnes have also been operated from numerous divisions in a bid to enable the farmers discover new markets for their agricultural generate as nicely as for its economical and rapidly transportation.
Between 1 April and 10 May, a total of 3837 rakes of goods trains have been run by the railway zone, carrying 8 million tonnes of vital supplies. As numerous as 8464 freight trains had been interchanged with other railway zones, in which 39,413 quantity of trains had been handed more than and 39,270 quantity of trains had been taken more than at numerous interchange points. To encourage current and probable freight buyers to transport their goods by way of Indian Railways with the incentives introduced by the Railway Board for speedy, economical, bulk and trustworthy transportation of their things, Business Development Units (BDUs) are in continual get in touch with with them, the Western Railway zone added.