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Ministry of Railways has reviewed the grant of freight concession in empty flow directions of wagons and extended the same from 1st October 2005 to 31st March 2006. Under the new terms and conditions, a concession of 20% in freight rates will be granted for incremental traffic booked in the notified empty flow direction of wagons.
Freight concession in empty flow directions can also be given for intra-railways traffic if the traffic moves towards the notified empty flow directions.
The concession will be admissible to traffic originating from sidings and ports and will be admissible for traffic in rakes consisting of covered wagons like BCN/BCNAHS/BCX/BCXN etc. including two point rakes booked to approve combination of destination points. “Incremental traffic” for granting the above freight concessions will be the traffic, in terms of rakes, beyond the number of rakes loaded during the corresponding month of the previous year. For example, if the traffic loaded from the siding/port in October 2004, was 14 rakes, freight concession will be granted if the loading in October 2005 exceeds 14 rakes and the freight concession will be applicable from 15th rake onward at the time of booking.
Two units of Mini Rakes will be treated as one unit for the purpose of counting number of rakes to calculate the incremental traffic. The date of completion of loading of a rake will be reckoned for the purpose of determining the number of rakes loaded in a particular month. The concession will be admissible for commodities in Class-120 and above excluding Coal. Only one of the concessions, either concession in empty flow directions or concession during non-peak period, will be granted at a time. Further, when either of the aforesaid concessions is availed by a customer, concessions under other schemes like station-to-station rate scheme etc. will not be granted. However, the scheme of granting 2% rebate on incremental earnings for premier customers will continue to remain applicable exclusively.
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