CR’s Ngp Divn posts best ever performance of financial year
03 Nov 2020 09:15:59
Staff Reporter :
In an indication of buoyancy in economy, Indian Railway’s two divisions in city posted best ever performance on loading front during the financial year in the month of October. The lockdown period saw Railways aggressively focussing on freight and the results are now showing off increased throughout and also in terms of the earnings. Nagpur Divisions of Central Railway and South East Central Railway (SECR) have aligned their marketing and operating strategies to work seamlessly in field and ensure faster clearances, turn around of wagons and all this without compromising on punctuality.
The challenges on maintaining the freight and loading time table has increased now that long distance passenger carrying trains numbers is slowly increasing. This in turn put pressure on tracks as maintenance of tracks has also needed to be looked into. But with respite from the pandemic a bit, railways have thrown in all its energies to increase the throughput and put back the nation's lifeline in front. Central Railway: For CR’s Nagpur Division, the black gold, coal, continues to drive its growth and as 2.904 million tonnes was loaded in a month, an increase of 31.2 per cent as against 2.214 million tonnes of last year.
The same was achieved with hauling of 38 coal rakes on single day, on October 29. S G Rao, Assistant Commercial Manager (Goods) and also spokesperson for division, said that the challenges existed on multiple fronts but co-ordinated approach helped us meet the targets. Under the leadership of Richa Khare, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), the entire team worked in tandem with focus on meeting the tight deadlines of placement of rakes, their timely movement, ending detentions enroute to delivery sites etc. Extra manpower was deployed at sidings to co-ordinate with customers and extending facilities needed for speeding-up loading etc. Further through Business Development Unit (BDU) continuos liasoning was maintained and it helped in getting new leads in loading, like that of wheat and tractors.
About tractors Rao said since this was long lead upto Bangladesh border, continuous updates about movement of the rake was provided to Mahindra&Mahindra officials. About 3.24 million tonnes of goods were loaded and same was 32.4 per cent more higher than the previous year's loading of 2.45 million tonnes. Apart from that maximum 2437 wagons were loaded in a day on October 29. At a monthly target of 2.882 million tonnes, this is an increase of 12.4 per cent. Freight earnings this year increased by 15.3 per cent from 16.58 crores previous year to 249.72 crores.
One significant development is loading of wheat, the last time it was done was in 2016, and same was done at Betul providing a new commodity. As of now, 5 rakes of food grains were transported but they are bound to increase and further 3 rakes of iron and steel were loaded. About eight rakes of clinker too were loaded. Also through BDU, the Van Mall Warehouse has been successful in transporting Dolomite traffic by rail for Bandadih (BDIH) in the ADRA division from the Wani Mall warehouse, generating revenue of 1.33 crore. The speed of goods trains also registered an increase from 22.7 kmph to 44.7 in the current year. Mainly the punctuality of Mail Express trains has improved from 93.11 percent to 97.38 per cent, an increase of to 4.6 per cent over the previous year. A significant aspect is that punctuality is highest among the five divisions of Central Railway.