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Government of India Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) Table-11: Composition of Passengers (2007-2008): Passenger % PKMs (Million) % PKMs Revenue % (Million) (Crore) Suburban (total) 3689 56.5 119842 15.6 1570 8.0 Non Suburban Upper Class 65.6 1.0 40948 5.3 4308 21.8 Sleeper class M/E Ord. 222.4 3.5 157674 20.5 5026 25.4 Second class M/E 554.1 8.5 227161 29.5 5420 27.4 Second class Ord. 1993 30.5 224381 29.1 3459 17.5 Non- suburban (total) 2835 43.5 650114 84.4 18214 92.0 4.2.1 Demand for passenger services will continue to outstrip supply for some time to come owing to increasing prosperity, urbanization and the attendant increase in propensity to travel. Train travel also has to be repositioned and perceived as the mode of choice by passengers. Railways would aim at fully meeting the demand. This would require close attention to the issues of speed, comfort, convenience, choice, elimination of shortage, punctuality maintenance, elimination of equipment failures, improved quality of service and a very pleasant travel experience overall right from booking of ticket to disembarkation at the destination point. 4.2.2 To achieve the above, constraints on the trunk routes need to be eased and busy passenger service corridors need to be segregated from the freight corridors by provision of separate dedicated double-line tracks for each service. Routes approaching major cities need to be provided with additional lines to run commuter services separately. The speed on passenger corridors needs to be improved from 130 kmph (Rajdhani/Shatabdi) or 110 (other Express trains) to 160 to 200 kmph on trunk routes so that important inter-metro journeys like Delhi-Kolkata and Delhi-Mumbai could be completed by overnight runs. Manufacture of modern coaches to meet incremental as well as replacement requirements (at the rate of 1000 to 1200 coaches per annum) would be essential. Existing plans to expand the capacity at Integral Coach Factory, Perambur and Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala and set up new manufacturing facilities at Rae Bareily, Palghat and Kanchrapara need to be implemented in time. High-horse power locomotives need to be inducted into coaching service to improve speeds and punctuality. The maintenance regime would need to be reviewed to optimize utilization of coaches. Terminal and maintenance facilities, remodeling of coaching terminal yards would also require commensurate investment. 4.2.3 Passenger trains can also be positioned and targeted at novel uses. Specially designed trains can act as business centres on wheels or carriers and disseminators of cultural and scientific awareness. Indian Railways is already doing this in a small way through tourist trains, Lifeline express and the Red-Ribbon Express. These segments can be expanded. 21
Government of India Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) 4.2.4 Projected growth of passenger service based on average growth of originating passengers at 8% and PKMs at 10 % per annum respectively at the horizon years of 2011-12 and 2019-20 is shown below: Table-12: Projected growth of passenger traffic Year Passenger (Million) PKMs (Billion) 2011-12 8200 1100 2019-20 15180 2360 Passenger Services Vision By 2020, Railway's passenger services would be transformed from a supply- constrained business to a state of availability on demand. Quality of services in terms of punctuality, safety, security, sanitation, cleanliness and amenities at stations and onboard, catering and other value- added services (pre-boarding and post -disembarkation) would be upgraded to match the best in the world. Access to railway services will also be improved by using existing and innovative networks of distribution channels like internet, mobile telephones and other vending mechanism. Enquiry services would be transformed by using online data from train operations and emerging technologies of internet and mobile telephones. Speed of trains would be raised to 160-200 kmph on segregated passenger routes and work on a few selected corridors of high speed trains travelling at 250kmph to 300 kmph would be initiated. Special attention will be paid to meet the requirements of lady passengers, students and youth. 4.2.5 Parcel Business Parcel traffic, mostly carried along with the passenger services is presently estimated to account for barely 2% of the total non-bulk traffic of the country. Recently a number of initiatives have been taken to realize the enormous potential of the parcel business. These include leasing out of parcel vans and a policy shift away from piecemeal traffic in parcel vans in passenger-carrying trains toward movement in rakes of parcel trains between dedicated parcel terminals. Further, stress has been laid on attracting new traffic like automobiles and agri-produce in addition to conventional high-rated parcel traffic like white goods, processed food, FMCG, electronic goods, textiles, perishables. As a result of these measures, there has been a perceptible growth in tonnage and earnings from parcel business during the last five years: Table-13: Growth in Parcel Business: Year Tonnage (In million tonnes) Earnings (Rs. in crores) 2004-05 4.19 532 2005-06 4.63 637 2006-07 4.94 900 2007-08 5.54 1008 22 2008-09 5.92 1081
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