{"id":692,"date":"2019-09-20T20:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=692"},"modified":"2019-09-20T20:55:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:25:35","slug":"outstanding-growth-in-sers-earnings-from-freight-passenger-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding growth in SER\u2019s earnings from freight &#038; passenger traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The freight earnings have registered a growth of 8.01% while passenger earnings have increased by 5.37%<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kolkata:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0South Eastern Railway has achieved an outstanding improvement<\/strong>\u00a0in freight and passenger earnings in the financial year 2017-18. The freight earnings have registered a growth of 8.01% while passenger earnings have increased by 5.37% in 2017-18 in comparison to 2016-17.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Freight Traffic:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During 2017-18, South Eastern Railway has generated earnings of Rs.12062.77 crores from originating freight traffic as against Rs.11168.08 crores earned from freight traffic during the previous financial year 2016-2017, thus recording a significant jump of Rs. 894.69 crores i.e. a growth of 8.01%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The increase in freight earnings has been made possible due to highest ever loading of 150.76 million tonnes of freight in 2017-18 as against 147.73 million tonnes loaded during 2016-17, registering a growth of 2.05%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Passenger Traffic:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">South Eastern Railway\u2019s earnings from Passenger Traffic during the financial year 2017-18 has also gone up by 5.37% in comparison to the last fiscal.\u00a0 SER earned Rs.2030.32 crores from Passenger Traffic during the financial year 2017-18 as against Rs. 1926.87crores earned from Passenger Traffic during 2016-17.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out of total Passenger Earnings of Rs. 2030.32 crores, earnings from Suburban Passengers were Rs 105.80 crores while earnings from Non-Suburban Passengers were Rs.1924.52 crores. The total number of passengers carried during the 2017-18 financial year was 259.62 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The freight earnings have registered a growth of 8.01% while passenger earnings have increased by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koo_publish_custom_meta":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/freight-traffic.jpe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}