Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Monday shared figures reflecting the zone’s performance during 2022. According to the data shared by ECoR, total 175.32MT of freight up to December’2022, as against 169.39MT during the corresponding period of last fiscal which is 5.93 MT more and a growth of about 3.5%.
In terms of Earnings from freight, ECoR has earned Rs 14247.88 crore during the period as against Rs 13134.98 crore by registering a growth of Rs 1112.9 crore than the last fiscal by registering an increase of 8.47%.
On the Passenger front, ECoR has carried 53.11 million passengers up to December’2022 as against 21.37 millions carried in the corresponding period of last fiscal by registering a growth of 148.5%. On earning from Passengers, ECoR has earned Rs 1403.58 crore as against Rs 770.45 crore by registering an increase of 82.17%.
“This could be possible due to outstanding performance of all the three Divisions of East Coast Railway, i.e. Khurda Road, Waltair and Sambalpur. Relentless Round the Clock Close Monitoring & Outstanding supervision, dedicated and sincere work force brought this performance, to make this achievement a reality,” an ECoR official said.
Apart from the above, East Coast Railway aims to complete infrastructural works. Vital traffic related works like, Doubling of entire Sambalpur-Titilagarh Railway Section, Angul-Talcher Road section (12 Kms.), Angul-Balram (14KMs) Link Inner Coal Corridor Connectivity Project, 3rd & 4th line between Salagaon-Rajathgarh, Doubling between Salagaon-Kapilas Road, doubling of Jakhapura-Nayagarh except 3 block section, Third Line between Kapilas Road & Nergundi, 3rd line between Budhapank-NTPC block cabin & 4th line between Budhapank-Talcher Road, 3rd line between Titilagarh-Kesinga and doubling between Sikir-Titilagarh along with yard remodelling, double line of 21 KMs between Kaklur-Kawargaon-Dabpal, 3rd line between Rupra Road-Norla Road-Lanjigarh Road along with electrification, Doubling between Dummuriput-Damanjodi Section in Koraput-Rayagada branch line have been completed and commissioned during this year.
Giving priority to the much awaited Khurda Road-Balangir Railway Line project, construction works are being done from both sides to complete this at the earliest. 10.65Kms Bichupali-Jharatarbha of Khurda Road-Balangir project has been completed, recently.
Total 11.40Kms between Khambeswarpalli-Jharatarbha is targeted to be completed by March’2023. Apart from this, 15.445 KMs between Nuagaon-Daspalla has been scheduled to be completed by February’2023 from Khurda Road side. The ECoR official added, the Union Railway Minister is giving priority for Development of Railway Infrastructure of the region and also monitoring the developmental works regularly.
