Lok Sabha Question No. 2852 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-03
Subject: Freight Trains
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: Jayant Sinha

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2852 TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.08.2022

## FREIGHT TRAINS

## 2852. SHRI JAYANT SINHA:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  and  the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  make freight  trains  more  viable  as  compared  to  other  modes  of transit;
- (b) the details of ongoing and planned freight projects in Jharkhand, especially in the districts of Hazaribagh and Ramgarh;
- (c) the details of volume of commodities and freight transit to and from Jharkhand, especially in the districts  of  Hazaribagh  and Ramgarh; and
- (d) the details of trends in revenue from freight during the last five years?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF RAILWAYS, COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI ASHWINI VAISHNAW)

(a) to (d)  A Statement is laid on the Table of the House .

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STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (d)  OF UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  2852  BY  SHRI  JAYANT  SINHA  TO  BE ANSWERED  IN  LOK  SABHA  ON  03.08.2022  REGARDING  FREIGHT TRAINS

- (a) Indian Railways has provided various incentives to make freight transportation by Rail more viable in comparison to other modes of transport.

Some major incentives are Liberalised Automatic Freight Rebate scheme  for  traffic  loaded  in  empty  flow  direction,  non  levy  of Busy  Season  Charge,  Concession  in  Short  lead  traffic,  10% concession  on  movement  of  empty  container  &  empty  flat wagon,  Roundtrip  charges  on  ultra  short  (upto  50  KM)  lead container  traffic  with  further  delegation  to  Zonal  Railways  to quote lumpsum rate for intra zonal round trip movement  for lead upto 250 km, Station to Station rates (STS), discount on loading of bagged consignment in open and flat wagons etc. In addition, various  other  schemes  have  also  been  introduced  to  attract private investment in General Purpose Wagons, Special Purpose/High  Capacity  wagons  and  Automobile  carrier  wagons etc.

- (b) In  order  to  boost  investment  from  Industry  for  development  of cargo handling terminals, a new 'Gati Shakti Multi- Modal Cargo Terminal(GCT)' policy has been launched. This policy facilitates

development of cargo terminals on non Railway land, as well as on  Railway  land  (partially  or  fully).  Six  locations  in  Jharkhand have  already  been  identified  -two  at  Shivpur  (Chatra)  and  one each at Phulbasiya (Latehar), Jarangdih (Bokaro), Godda (Godda) and Gua (Paschimi Singhbhoom).

There are number of sidings in Jharkhand state which are under construction- Private Siding of M/s Adani Power Limited in Godda district,  Electrosteel Steel Limited  (ESL)  siding  &  Bharat  Petro Chemical Limited (BPCL) siding in Bokaro district, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) in  West Singhbhum district etc. Further,  30  Projects  (13  New  Line,  1  Gauge  Conversion  and  16 43,211crore  for  2,733  km  length  falling fully/partly  in  Jharkhand  are  under different  stages of  planning. Out of which 693 km length, has already been commissioned and 15,576 crore has been incurred upto March

Doubling),  costing ₹ an expenditure of ₹ 2022.

- The details of volume of commodities and freight transit to and from  Jharkhand  especially  in  the  district  of  Hazaribagh  and
- (c) Ramgarh are as under:

| Location            | Loading (Million Tonne)   | Loading (Million Tonne)   | Revenue ( ₹ in Cr.)   | Revenue ( ₹ in Cr.)   |
|---------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|                     | 2020-21                   | 2021-22                   | 2020-21               | 2021-22               |
| Hazaribagh District | 7.90                      | 10.14                     | 1125.34               | 1648.76               |
| Ramgargh District   | 8.17                      | 10.18                     | 1057.92               | 1555.95               |

## The Details of revenue generated from the movement of freight

- (d) during the last five years are as under:

| Year                  |   Freight Revenue ( ₹ in Cr.) |
|-----------------------|-------------------------------|
| 2017-18               |                        117055 |
| 2018-19               |                        127433 |
| 2019-20               |                        113488 |
| 2020-21               |                        117232 |
| 2021-22 (Provisional) |                        141096 |

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