Indian Railways rakes in Rs 12,159 crore from festive rush

Indian Railways raked successful a gross of Rs 12,159.35 crore from summons income during the festive play that stretched from September 1 to October 31 this year, according to information tabled successful Parliament.

The two-month play was marked by festivals specified arsenic Ganesh Chaturthi, Dussehra, and Diwali, which usually witnesses a spurt successful passengers travelling done the railways.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw shared the zone-wise information connected the gross from summons income successful reply to a question successful the Lok Sabha.

His connection showed that 143.71 crore passengers utilized the railways betwixt September 1 and November 10. The maximum footfall was recorded successful the cardinal zone, astatine 31.63 crore. The occidental portion secured the 2nd presumption with 26.13 crore passengers, followed by the eastbound portion with 24.67 crore passengers. The south-east cardinal portion recorded the lowest rider number astatine 1.48 crore.

The railways announced the instauration of 7,663 further peculiar bid services to cater to the festival play rush, from October 1 to November 30, which is simply a 73 per cent summation compared to the aforesaid play successful 2023. Last twelvemonth 4,429 other bid trips were operated during this period.

It transported 957.24 lakh non-suburban passengers during the Diwali and Chhath celebrations from October 24 to November 4, compared to 923.33 lakh passengers during the aforesaid play past year, which represents an summation of 33.91 lakh passengers.

On November 4 alone, implicit 1.2 crore passengers utilised the services, including 19.43 lakh reserved and implicit 1.01 crore unreserved non-suburban travellers, marking the highest single-day rider fig for the existent year.

According to a Railway Board connection issued earlier this month, 207 peculiar trains were tally connected November 3 and 203 connected November 4 to accommodate the surge successful passengers.

The expanding fig of passengers besides shows the higher level of economical enactment successful a increasing system arsenic much radical person shifted from agrarian to municipality areas for jobs and returned to their autochthonal places to observe spiritual festivals.