Indian Railways registers highest ever loading in FY 2021-22
The Indian Railways achieved its highest ever freight loading in the financial year 2021-22, it said on Saturday.
The national transporter loaded 1,418.1 MT of freight in 2021-22, which is 15 per cent higher compared to 1,233.24 MT in 2020-21, it said in a statement.
This is the highest ever loading for the railways in a financial year and it has achieved its highest-ever monthly loadings for 19 consecutive months from September 2020 to March 2022, it added.
It also achieved a record electrification of 6,366 RKMs (route kilometres) ing the last financial year.
The previous highest electrification was 6,015 RKMs in 2020-21. As on March 31 this year, of the 65,141 RKMs of the railways’ BG (broad gauge) network (including KRCL), 52,247 BG RKMs have been electrified, which is 80.2 per cent of the total network.
