Railways canceled more than 35 thousand trains in the first 9 months of the current financial year, RTI revealed
Indian Railways: In 2014, 101 trains were canceled due to maintenance works and in 2017 this number increased to 829. The number of such trains increased to 2,867 in 2018 and 3,146 in 2019.
The total number of delayed trains has gone up to 41,483.
Indian Railways (Indian Railways, In the first nine months of the financial year 2021-22, over 35,000 trains have been canceled due to maintenance reasons. This is a matter of railway Right to Information (RTI) In response to. The Railways also said that during the April to June quarter in 2021-22, it canceled 20,941 trains due to maintenance reasons. In the next quarter, it canceled 7117 trains while in the quarter from October to December, 6,869 trains were canceled. Chandrashekhar Gaur of Madhya Pradesh had filed an RTI application. Officials indicated that the highest number of 3,146 trains were canceled in 2019 due to maintenance work in recent times.
According to official figures, 101 trains were canceled in 2014 due to maintenance works and in 2017 the number increased to 829. The number of such trains increased to 2,867 in 2018 and 3,146 in 2019. This shows how much work is pending on the dilapidated tracks for a long time, said an official.
More than 41 thousand trains were delayed
The Railways suspended all its normal passenger services for most of 2020 due to the COVID pandemic and ran only special trains during the year. In response to the RTI, the Railways has said that 15,199 mail or express trains were delayed from April to December 2021, while 26,284 passenger trains were delayed during the same period. The total number of such delayed trains has gone up to 41,483.
According to the Ministry of Railways, Railways is on track to deliver 58 supercritical and 68 critical projects worth over Rs 1,15,000 crore in the next few years. Of the 29 supercritical projects, 27 were to be completed by December 2021, while two projects would be handed over by March this year.
However, it is not clear how many passengers were affected between April and December last year, when around 35,026 trains were canceled due to maintenance works. It has also been revealed from RTI that during this time more than 40 thousand trains have been delayed.
Punctuality performance decreased
The RTI also reveals that the punctuality performance of the railways has reduced as trains resumed and normal operations resumed. During the April to June quarter, when the Railways was running only special trains, 7,050 trains were canceled and the punctuality performance was around 94 per cent. In the July-September quarter, this performance fell by 92 per cent as 14,249 trains were delayed.
Passengers have taken to social networking sites to complain about delays and many have even offered to reimburse passengers for lost time.
with PTI input
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