Indian Railways complete 162 years of service to the Nation.
It is a creditable record. Indian Railways is completing 162 years of glorious service. It was on 16th April 1853 that the first train started from Victoria Terminus (Bombay) to Thane.
It has grown and grown
It has grown and grown
Indian Railways is one of the largest railways in the world with 115,000 km of track over a route of 65,436 km and more than 7,200 stations.
In 2014-15, IR carried 8.397 billion passengers annually or more than 23 million passengers a day (roughly half of whom were suburban passengers) and 1050.18 million tons of freight in the year.
In 2014–2015 Indian Railways had a revenue of Rs.1634.50 billion which consists of Rs.1069.27 billion from freight and Rs. 402.80 billion from passengers tickets.
It is also the biggest employer in the country with more than 13 lakh workers.
The move of the government to privatise the Indian Railways should be strongly opposed and defeated.
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