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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Kumod Verma | TNN

ECR registers record earning

PATNA: The East Central Railway (ECR) has registered a record goods loading of 167.03 million tonne during 2021-22 fiscal, yielding an impressive earning of Rs 19327.37 crore to the railways.

This is the third highest revenue earning and the fourth highest goods loading in all zonal railways.

According to ECR chief public relations officer (CPRO), Birendra Kumar, railways has taken several steps to improve goods loading figure this time by switching over a few goods sheds to public private partnership (PPP) mode to facilitate easy and quick goods loading.

Railways has executed functioning of goods sheds in PPP mode at the Bhurkunda goods loading shed in Dhanbad division and Ismailpur goods shed in Pt Deen Dayal Upadhaya division of the ECR, he said .

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