Lok Sabha Question No. 1991 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-07
Subject: Losses in Mumbai Local Railway Services
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE, ARVIND GANPAT SAWANT

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1991 TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.03.2018

## LOSSES IN MUMBAI LOCAL RAILWAY SERVICES

- †1991 .  SHRI KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE: SHRI ARVIND SAWANT:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  for  the  last  several  years,  huge  losses  are  being incurred  on  local  train  services  in  metropolitan  areas  of Mumbai;
- (b) if so, the details of income and expenditure for the last three years;
- (c) the  measures  being  taken  to  check  losses  in  these  services and make them profitable to some extent;
- (d) whether the Railways have considered to commercially develop  the  local  railway  stations  of  Mumbai  in  order  to increase its income; and
- (e) if so, the details of the progress made in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(SHRI RAJEN GOHAIN)

- (a) to (e): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (e)  OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1991 BY SHRI KRUPAL BALAJI TUMANE  AND  SHRI  ARVIND  SAWANT  TO  BE  ANSWERED  IN  LOK SABHA  ON  07.03.2018  REGARDING  LOSSES  IN  MUMBAI  LOCAL RAILWAY SERVICES

(a) & (b): Indian Railway is incurring losses by running local train services in metropolitan areas of Mumbai. The income and expenditure for the last three years are as under:

(in

Crore)

| Year    |   Earnings |   Expenditure | Profit/Loss (-)   |
|---------|------------|---------------|-------------------|
| 2014-15 |    1640.63 |       3066.82 | (-) 1426.19       |
| 2015-16 |    1708.22 |       3185.77 | (-) 1477.55       |
| 2016-17 |    1857.31 |       3234.07 | (-) 1376.76       |
| Total   |    5206.16 |       9486.66 | (-) 4280.50       |

- (c):   Measures being taken to make these services break even or make some profits as well are as follows:
- (i) Full  advertisement rights on outside of Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) rakes.
- (ii) Sponsored  commercial  announcements  and  Light  Emitting Diode (LED) displays inside the coaches.
- (iii) Introduction of Paperless Mobile ticketing apps.
- (iv) Currency/Coin  cum  card  operated  Automatic  Ticket  Vending Machines (ATVMs).
- (v) Introduction of Yatri Ticket Suvidha Kendra (YTSK) & Jansadharan  Ticket  Booking  Seva  (JTBS)  to  sell  Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) tickets.
- (vi) Introduction of SMART Cards facilitating ticketing.
- (vii) Re-enforcing constant and strict barrier checking to catch and penalise commuters travelling without valid travel authorities.
- (viii)  Continuous review of Overtime  claims  by Running  staff, Commercial staff and other technical staff.

(d)  &  (e):  Mumbai  local  stations  fall  in  the  category  of  suburban stations  and  categorized  as  'C'  category  stations.  The  present scheme  for  redevelopment  of  stations  covers  'A-1'  &  'A'  category stations.  Accordingly,  Mumbai  Central,  Bandra  Terminus,  Dadar, Thane,  Kalyan,  Lokmanya  Tilak  Terminus  &  Mumbai  CST  stations which  fall  under  'A-1'  category  are  planned  to  be  offered  for redevelopment by leveraging commercial potential of vacant sparable land/airspace.

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