Indian Railways (IR) is the fourth-largest rail network in the world having transported 1.2 billion tons of freight. Yet, 71 per cent of India’s freight is transported by road and only 17 per cent by rail.
Key Challenges to Indian Rail Freight
The present modal share of railways in freight is just 17 per cent.
India's rail freight quantum as part of its total freight movement – including air, water and road is only 17 per cent vis-a-vis China's 47 per cent and the United States' 48 per cent.
The Golden Quadrilateral and its diagonals which comprise merely 16 per cent of ....
