Lok Sabha Question No. 524 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-02
Subject: Train Services
Ministry: RAILWAYS
Asked by: R. GOPALAKRISHNAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.524 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.12.2015

## TRAIN SERVICES

524. SHRI R.GOPALAKRISHNAN:

Will the Minister of RAILWAYS be pleased to state:

(a)  whether the railways has conducted any review of the existing operation  of  train  services  to  overcome  the  problem  of  delayed arrival/departure  of  trains  and  stoppage  of  trains  at  unknown remote areas due to signal or other reasons; and

(b) if so, the details thereof?

ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS ( SHRI MANOJ SINHA )

(a) & (b) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) & (b) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  524  BY  SHRI  R.GOPALAKRISHNAN  TO  BE  ANSWERED  IN  LOK  SABHA  ON 02.12.2015 REGARDING TRAIN SERVICES.

- (a)  &  (b):  Yes,  Madam.  Indian  Railways  achieved  an  average  of  81.5%  punctuality during August-October 2015 on terminating basis. Out of 146414 Mail/Express trains run during August-October 2015, 27020 trains lost punctuality.

Major  reasons  for  loss  of  punctuality  during  the  above  period  are  given  as below:

| Factors                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |   Percentage of total number of trains run |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
| Beyond railways control (Alarm chain pulling, Miscreant activity, public agitation, incidents, bad weather like rains & fog, cattle run over, Maoist threats and other law and order problems, road traffic congestion at LC Gates etc.) |                                        2.1 |
| Signal & Telecommunication failures                                                                                                                                                                                                      |                                        1   |
| Other Assets failures (Failures related to diesel/electric locomotives, carriage and wagons, OHE/Grid, engineering, signal and telecommunication, electric defects etc.)                                                                 |                                        2.3 |
| Capacity constraints (Capacity & path constraints, rescheduling of trains)                                                                                                                                                               |                                        8.6 |
| Maintenance blocks (Traffic block for asset maintenance works)                                                                                                                                                                           |                                        0.7 |
| Capacity enhancement works (Blocks for execution of capacity enhancement works and technology up gradation of existing assets of train operations.)                                                                                      |                                        0.9 |
| Other reasons (Trains lost on multiple cause heads & abnormal situations, accidents etc.)                                                                                                                                                |                                        2.9 |

Railways have initiated various measures inter-alia controlling asset failures, including signal and telecommunication failures, through prioritization of preventative maintenance of assets, tackling of law and order problems jointly with State Governments, decongestion of traffic on Indian Railways network by revision of train timings of about 170 trains including shifting of terminal and diversion of trains. Besides,  Eastern  and  Western dedicated freight corridors  have  already  been sanctioned to segregate corridors for running of goods trains from passenger trains.

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