Vijayawada Nov.22 (NSS): South Central Railway (SCR), Vijayawada Division held a Freight Customer Meet on Friday at Divisional Conference Hall, DRM Office, here.
Narendra A. Patil, Divisional Railway Manager presided over the Meeting with Divisional Freight Customers along with Srinivasa Rao Konda, ADRM, Operations and Branch Officers. The Meeting was held with an objective to review the loading projections, estimated revenue, supply of rakes, bottle necks, enhance the throughput and wagon turnaround of the Division with the esteemed freight customers of the Division.
At the outset, V. Rambabu, Sr. DCM welcomed the executives of various firms dealing with Freight movement across the length of the Division. He thanked the executives for their wonderful contribution during 2023-24 and playing a major role in the Growth story of the Division.
Narendra A. Patil, Divisional Railway Manager, Vijayawada Division in his opening address, thanked the freight customers for their valuable support and contribution in freight segment over the years. DRM stated that Vijayawada Division achieved highest ever freight revenue in the FY 2023-24 and this feat was possible due to the proper coordination, team planning and infrastructural works undertaken to ease the bottlenecks across the Division. DRM said that the Freight ecosystem existing currently in Indian Railways is very much liberalized, customer centric with policy changes at rapid pace to create a level playing field. DRM stressed that freight transport through rail is the most energy efficient and safest option for all the trade industry partners and the imminent need to regain the rail coefficient share and recapture diverted long and short lead traffic. He said that current year loading & revenue is marginally higher than previous year and anticipated to breach the 40 million tonnes freight loading mark by the end of FY 2024-25 with strong support, cooperation of esteemed freight customers and ensuing busy season.
Later, the DRM, Officials and the Executives of Freight Industry took part in the interactive sessions discussing the Loading projections, Prospective new streams, Bottle necks and infrastructure up-gradation works on the cards to facilitate smooth and quicker movement of freight. Executives & Branch Officers discussed regarding the problems faced at the field level in the daily working and the action plan in place to increase the wagon turnaround of the Division case by case. Narendra A. Patil, DRM suggested the executives to promptly finish the loading process to avoid the wagon detention and demurrage charges. He emphasized on reducing and preventing wagon damages while freight handling to reduce the turnaround time. He assured cooperation and full scale assistance with regard to issues at the field level in the loading stations and revamping of amenities at Good Sheds.
Srinivasa Rao Konda, ADRM, Operations V. Rambabu, Sr. DCM, D. Narendra Varma, Sr. DOM, A. Sanjay, Sr. DME, Y. Sandeep, Sr.DFM, Md. Ali khan, DCM, , Sailesh Kumar Singh, ACM, Inspectors and staff took part in the freight customers meet.
