SCR TOPS ALL ZONES IN PUNCTUALITY

Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) has earned the coveted top spot amongst all zones of Indian Railways in terms of punctuality performance and passenger earnings during the financial year 201617. The SCR has attained a new record in its punctuality performance during 2016-17, achieving a record of 96.32 per cent punctuality of train services, the highest among zones. The zone has bettered its own punctuality performance of 91.66 per cent in 2015-16 by attaining a +4.66 per cent high. A total of 745 train services are run by SCR every day, which include 270 mail/express train services, 354 passenger services and 121 MMTS services. Western Railway and South Western Railway follow at the second and third position in terms of punctuality performance. The South Eastern Railway; North Western Railway; Central Railway and Eastern Railway follow later. The South Central Railway has notched up yet another National best performance, achieving the first position in terms of passenger earnings on Indian Railways. SCR has recorded a 7.62 per cent increase in passenger earnings during 2016-17 which touched `3564.81 crore, as against `3312.49 crore during the previous fiscal 2015-16. East Central Railway follows SCR at the second position while West Central Railway, North Frontier Railway and Eastern Railway are placed at the third, fourth and fifth position in the passenger earnings segment. The General Manager has directed officials to have a dynamic ready plan, basing on passenger traffic demands and run special trains and attach extra coaches.