The nation is recording excellence in various fields and registering record-breaking performances, which is no doubt a befitting reply to all those leaders of opposition parties, who quite often raise questions on the working of the Government and its policies besides making abortive attempts to misguide people over on issue or another. Although, the people of present time are much more aware and educated and well-experienced to judge between the good and the bad, yet those leaders, just to register their presence in the political arena, issue statements without any logic or base. Under the able leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, all the sectors are touching record heights, which was earlier never witnessed in past. As per reports, Indian railways has recorded best ever September Monthly freight loading of 115.80 MT in September 2022. The incremental loading in the month of September has been 9.7 MT i.e., a growth of 9.15 per cent over the previous best September figures achieved in 2021.With this, Indian Railways has had 25 straight months of best ever monthly freight loading. The Railways has achieved an incremental loading of 6.8 MT in Coal, followed by 1.2 in Iron Ore and 1.22 MT in Balance other goods, 0.4 MT in Cement & Clinker and 0.3 MT in Fertilizers. Increase in automobile loading has been another highlight of Freight Business in FY 2022-23 and 2712 rakes have been loaded in FY 2022-23 till September as compared to 1575 rakes during the same period of last year i.e. a growth of 72.2 per cent. The cumulative freight loading from 1st April’2022 to 30th September’2022 has been 736.68 MT as against 668.86 MT achieved in 2021-22 i.e. an incremental loading of 67.83 MT, with a growth of 10.14 per cent over same period last year. The freight NTKMs (Net tonnes kilometers) have increased from 63.43 Billion in September ’21 to 69.97 Billion in September’22 registering a growth of 10.3 per cent. The cumulative NTKMs in the first Half of the year have also grown by 17.1 per cent. The sustained efforts of Indian Railways to increase supply of Coal to Power houses, in close coordination with Ministries of Power and Coal, has again been one of the key features of the freight performance in the month of September. The loading of Coal (both domestic and imported) to Power Houses has increased by 6.2 MT in September, with 42.00 MT Coal being moved to Power houses as against 35.8 MT last year, i.e. a growth of 17.3 per cent. Cumulatively, in the first Half of the year, IR has loaded more than 64.53 MT extra coal to Power Houses as compared to same period of last year, with a growth of more than 29.3 per cent.
