South Western Railway achieves record of loading highest wagons per day

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Hubballi based South Western Railway (SWR) on March 26 loaded 2604 wagons. Hubballi division of SWR accounted for 2007 wagons, Mysuru division 447 and Bengaluru division 150. This is the highest single day wagon loading for the period from 2017 to 2021. The zonal railway on March 25 had loaded 2594 wagons which is the second highest number of wagons loaded during the financial year 2020-21.

SWR has been steadily loading above 3.10 million tonnes (MT) every month and so far has loaded 37.40 MT till March 26 which is about 97.4% of the target of the FY 2020-21. In a bid to double the freight volume by 2024 and attract more freight traffic, the ministry of railways has advised all zonal railways to set up business development units at all zonal and divisional levels and advertise willingness of Railways to attract new streams of traffic.

SWR set up business development units in April 2020, both at the zonal and divisional levels, and these units have shown a consistent improvement in freight loading. A slew of freight incentive schemes and concessions were also announced to give boost to freight loading and attract customers to choose railways as preferred mode of transport of goods and also to attract more commodities into the freight basket of Indian Railways.

Consistent monitoring by Hari Shankar Verma, principal chief operating manager and S P Shastri, chief freight transportation manager at the zonal level and divisional teams of operating officers led by Arvind Malkhede, divisional railway manager (DRM), Hubballi, Ashok Kumar Verma, and Rahul Agarwal, DRMs, Bengaluru and Mysuru has enabled SWR to achieve the highest single day freight loading, Ajay Kumar Singh, GM, SWR, says.

Freight operations are being ramped up and all out efforts are being made to ensure smooth and timely transportation of essential commodities. Ajay Kumar Singh said that with industries now picking up activities in the unlock phase of the pandemic and willing to transport more of goods and commodities due to flexible schemes, lower tariffs, faster movement, safe, secure, hassle free transportation by rail.

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