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1ST RAILWAY TO ACHIEVE 100 MT LOADING IN 2023-24 FISCAL

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Newdelhi: 04 SEP 2023     During the first five months of the current financial year, i.e. from 1st April to 31st August 2023, East Coast Railway has loaded 100.90MT of freight as against 97.13MT carried in the corresponding period of last fiscal. With this, it has loaded 3.77MT incremental cargo during the current financial year registering an increase of 3.9%.

This could be possible due to outstanding performance of all the three Divisions of East Coast Railway, i.e. Khurda Road, Waltair and Sambalpur. During the period, ECoR has loaded 61.30MT of Coal, 3.33MT of Raw material for Steel Plants, 8.21 MT of Iron and steel, 11.68MT of Iron Ore, 0.76MT of Cement, 1.29MT of Food Grains, 2.57MT of Fertilizer, 1.24MT of POL, 1.76MT of freight loaded in Containers and 8.76MT of other cargo.

Major contributors of freight include Talcher, Paradeep, Dhamara, Visakhapatnam, Gangavaram, Keonjhar, KK Line, Steel Plants, Aluminium plants and from other places of ECoR jurisdiction.

During the period, 63.59MT of freight was carried from Khurda Road Division, 29.75MT of freight from Waltair Division, and 7.54MT of freight carried from Sambalpur Division.

In August 2023 only, East Coast Railway carried 20.43MT of freight as against 19.90MT carried in the same time of 2022 registering an increase of 2.7% more freight.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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