Indian Railways achieved its highest-ever freight loading in the financial year 2021-22, it said on Saturday. The national transporter loaded 1,418.1 mt of freight in 2021-22, which was 15 per cent higher compared to 1,233.24 mt in 2020-21, it said in a statement.

This was the highest ever loading for Indian Railways in a financial year, and it had achieved its highest-ever monthly loadings for 19 consecutive months from September 2020 to March 2022, it added.

It also achieved a record electrification of 6,366 rkm (route kilometres) in the last financial year. The previous highest electrification was 6,015 rkm in 2020-21. As on March 31 this year, of the 65,141 rkm of the railways’ BG (broad gauge) network (including Konkan Railway), 52,247 BG rkm have been electrified, which is 80.2 per cent of the total network. 

In new line or doubling or gauge conversion, 2,904 km were achieved against the target of 2,400 km and 2,361 km of 2020-21. It is 23 per cent more than last year’s. 

The financial year 2021-22 also saw the highest-ever electric loco production and the induction of 1,110 locos (965 by the railway production units, 35 BHEL and 110 Madhepura). 

The revenue from the sale of scrap was Rs 5,316.1 crore as compared to the Rs 4,571.4 crore in 2020-21 (16.2 per cent higher). The target was Rs 4,100 crore. 

During the financial year 2021-22, the railways commissioned the anti-collision system, Kavach, on 850 rkm.