Railway Safety

Rail Network: India has the fourth largest railway network with over 22,593 operating trains (9141 freight and 13,452 passengers) with a daily passenger count of 24 million passengers and 203.88 million tonnes of freight.

  • In FY22 passenger traffic stood at 3.54 billion as compared to 1.28 billion in FY21. In FY 2021-22, railway freight traffic stood at 1,400 MT.

Revenue: Indian Railway’s revenue reached US$ 23.30 billion in FY22.

FDI: FDI inflows in railway regulated component stood at US$ 1.23 billion from April 2000-June 2021

Technology: Indian Railways is developing and creating technology in areas such as signalling and telecommunication with 15,000 kms being ....

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