{"id":548955,"date":"2023-01-21T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T06:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=548955"},"modified":"2023-01-21T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T06:03:09","slug":"railways-earnings-jump-28-2000-wagons-being-added-every-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-earnings-jump-28-2000-wagons-being-added-every-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways earnings jump 28%, 2,000 wagons being added every month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Railways has seen a 28% jump in freight and passenger revenue, which was increased to Rs 1.9 lakh crore during the financial year up to January 18, compared to a little under Rs 1.3 lakh crore during the corresponding period last year as coal, cement and chemicals helped the state-run transporter boost its earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Higher demand for freight movement has prompted the railways to add around 2,000 wagons every month. With 81% of the budget target of Rs 2.3 lakh crore of its budgeted earnings for the current fiscal year, railways is on course to achieve the full-year target in the next few weeks, although it may be revised upwards when the budget is presented on February 1.<\/p>\n<p>Passenger revenue, estimated at Rs 52,000 crore during the fiscal year up to January 18, is at a record level, higher than Rs 51,000 crore earned during 2018-19, official data showed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Railways has seen a 28% jump in freight and passenger revenue, which was increased to Rs 1.9 lakh crore during the financial year up to January 18, compared to a little under Rs 1.3 lakh crore during the corresponding period last year as coal, cement and chemicals helped the state-run transporter boost its earnings. Higher demand for freight movement has prompted the railways to add around 2,000 wagons every month. With 81% of the budget target of Rs 2.3 lakh crore of its budgeted earnings for the current fiscal year, railways is on course to achieve the full-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}