MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI K.H. MUNIYAPPA)
(a) (a) No, Madam. Railways did not suffer any loss during last three years.
(b) (b) The Revenue earnings and Revenue expenditure (including dividend) of Railways during the last
two years are as under:-
(Rs. in crore)
Year Revenue Expenditure
2009-10 89229.29 89228.54
2010-11 96681.02 95276.13
(Prov.)
(c) Does not arise.
(d) Does not arise. However, in order to improve its financial health, Railways are continuously striving
to augment traffic earnings and containing the expenditure to the possible extent. For further improvement
in earnings, the initiatives taken under freight business segment include plans to improve throughput through
increased productivity and efficiency, reduction in wagon turn around time, increasing carrying capacity of
wagons, notification of high capacity (25 tonne) routes for carrying additional traffic of bulk commodities,
modification of Taper of Base Class-100, distance based surcharge on Iron Ore for export co-related with the
international price of Iron Ore, dynamic Pricing Policy for taking advantage in the skew in demand for traffic
like levy of Busy Season charge, Development charge, Terminal charge, Busy Route surcharge for traffic to
Pakistan and Bangladesh etc. and introduction of more attractive Freight Incentive Scheme for retaining
and attracting additional traffic. Initiatives under passenger and parcel business segments include
extension of Passenger Reservation System (PRS) and Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) facilities to
more and more location, speeding up of trains, review of trains with low patronage, deployment of
additional coaches in well patronized trains, vigorous checking of ticket less travelling, additional
leasing of parcel space in certain nominated trains, leasing of vacant compartment of guard in front
of SLR coach etc.
On the expenditure side, Railway is striving to improve productivity by better man power planning, assets
utilization, inventory management, fuel consumption etc. and controlling expenditure through number of
austerity/economy measures.
