INFORMATION ABOUT INDIAN RAILWAY

 INDIAN RAILWAY

Indian railway is a best transport facility in India. In this article we will tell some information about Indian railways.

ESTABLISHMENT OF INDIAN RAILWAY

Indian railway is a major transport facility in India and our major population is travelling in train. Indian railway is important in our daily life in Indian railway around 20 to 23 million population travelling in a day by train.

INCOME OF INDIAN RAILWAY

Indian railway made the record by generating the revenue of 2.4 lakh crore rupees in financial year 2022 - 2023. Which is higher 49000 crore from previous year. In financial year 2021 - 2022 Indian railway has recorded 1.91 lakh crore revenue. Railway and the revenue mainly by internal sources like freight,passenger income and leasing of railway land this is major source of income by which railway earn.

SPENDINGS OF INDIAN RAILWAY

The major spendings of Indian railway is operating expenses,ralling stock,equipment,operating expenses,fuel,staff salary and facilities of staff and station or Indian railways train or other maintenance. Indian railway also spend money on tracks maintenance,station maintenance.

EMPLOYEE INDIAN RAILWAY

Indian railway is number one in India for recruiting people to work in Indian railway. The average salary of railway engineer is 50000 per year and principal chief engineer is 56 lakh per year.

BASIC SALARY OF INDIAN RAILWAY

Basic salary for candidate recruited is rupees 18000 and gross salary is being 22000 - 25000 in hand salary.

HOW MANY EMPLOYEES IN INDIAN RAILWAY

As of this year no data available but in 2016 to 2017 estimated there are 1.35 million people work at Indian railway. In which major vacancies are four group d or C post. Indian railway is also number one recruiter in India.

INDIAN RAILWAY FACILITIES

Indian railway provide various type of facilities for passenger like food serving on seat, luxury train, superfast train, economy, local train, IRCTC, bus,dome, canteen.

FOOD SERVING ON SEAT

It is available on all the classes of seat except general coach.

LUXURY TRAIN

In this Indian railway run maharaja express which gives a luxury feel.

SUPERFAST TRAIN

In this Indian railway run vande Bharat express

ECONOMY TRAIN

In this many trains we run by Indian railways for economic passengers.

IRCTC

It is an app introduced by railway for booking train ticket, travel packages, bus ticket, food booking for journey, general, tatkal, premium tatkal, divyang, senior citizen, female ticket booking. IRCTC provide high range of services to economy train passenger, superfast train passenger, luxury train passenger and local train passenger. IRCTC also provide customer support for booking grievance or query related to hotel booking, train ticket booking, food booking, bus booking.

BUS

Indian railway provide bus ticket by IRCTC app for booking ticket of bus byself from mobile and web for desktop.

DOME

It is a service provide by Indian railway. Which is available only on railway station. Dome is a waiting area. You can stay here when your train is late but railway charge some rupees for this. You can book this dome by going to station master.

CANTEEN

Indian railway provide food canteen on railway station. The food were cheaper as compared to shop or hotel on railway station.