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Members of the Railway Board recently met to formulate a detailed plan for the two new verticals to be called Raftaar (for increasing the speed of trains) and non-fare box revenue, senior Railway Ministry officials said.
“The Railway Board met recently and decided to create two vertical structures with inter-departmental members – non-fare box revenue and the other one will be named Raftaar to bring speed as an area of focus,” an official said.
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more... said the target of the Indian Railways would be to increase the average speed of freight trains by five kilometres per hour in the first year.
At present, the average speed of freight trains is 25 km per hour, passenger trains 35 km, mail express 50 km and super fast express trains 70-80 km per hour, Railway Board Chairman A. K. Mittal had said last month.
He had also said that the Indian Railways had not been able to increase the average speed in last 10 years as there was no separate department to look into this aspect.