freight and passenger traffic

Thursday, March 17, 2005

4597 million passengers were booked on Indian Railways during April 04 to January, 05, which is 6.32% higher than the corresponding period of previous year as compared to the target of 5.47% for the whole year 2004-05. Stating this in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today, the Minister of State for Railways, Shri R. Velu informed the House that revenue freight loading target for the year 2004-05 has been fixed as under:






(in million tonnes)

Target 2004-05
Proportionate

Target upto January, 05
Actual upto

January, 05
+/- over Target

580

(now revised to 600)
485
491.76

(Provisional)
6.76




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