Railway Budget 2022-23 Analysis

 FY 2022-23 Railway Budget - Analysis 

SN	Receipts	Amount  (Rs. in Crores)	Percentage		SN	Expenditure	Amount  (Rs. in Crores)	Percentage
1	Coaching Earnings	64500	27 %		1	Ordinary Working Expenses	170264.49	73 %
2	Goods Earnings	165000	69 %		2	Appropriation to Pension Fund	60000	26 %
3	Sundry Earnings	10000	4 %		3	Appropriation to DRF	2000	1 %
4	Gross Earnings (1+2+3)	239500	100 %		4	Total Working Expenses (1+2+3)	232264.49	100 %
5	Suspense	100			5	Suspense	(-)  264.49
6	Gross Traffic Receipts (4+5)	239600			6	Gross Expenditure (4+5)	232000
7	Misc Receipts	400			7	Misc. Expenditure	2640
8	Total Receipts (6+7)	240000			8	Total Expenditure	234640

Operating Ratio:

Operating Ratio = Total Working Expenses / Gross Earnings x 100

Operating Ratio = 232264.49 / 239500 x 100

Operating Ratio = 96.98 %    

Net Revenue:

Net Revenue = Total Receipts - Total Expenditure

Net Revenue = 240000 - 234640 

Net Revenue = Rs. 5360 Crores

Appropriation of Net Revenue - Rs. 5360 Crores

Fund	Amount  (Rs. in Crores)
Development Fund	1000
Capital Fund	2360
RRSK	2000
Net Revenue Total	5360

Nil appropriations to RSF - Railway Safety Fund, Debt Service Fund 

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Railway Capex 2022-23 

  Capex - Capital Expenditure - Rs. 2,45,800 Crores

TAC - Track Access Charges

 TAC - Track Access Charges

• Definition: Charges payable by user for access to the Rail Network. 

 

• A Concession Agreement signed between DFCCIL - Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd, an SPV - Special Purpose Vehicle and Indian Railways in 2014.  Under this agreement, Indian Railways will pay TAC to the DFCCIL for accessing the track constructed by the latter.

• TAC - Two part Tariff  (decided after examining the practices followed by different Railways of the world where ownership of infrastructure (i.e., DFCCIL) has been separated from the user of the infrastructure (i.e., Indian Railways & other Private users)

1.  Fixed Component (Depreciation, Cost of the Capital i.e., Interest)  - will be payable irrespective of volume of traffic

2. Variable Component (Traction charges, staff costs, material costs)   -  will be payable based on volume of traffic in terms of 000 GTKM 

  

• Part of these TAC, will be utilized by DFCCIL to pay back loans availed to develop Dedicated Freight Corridors to World Bank and JICA - Japanese International Cooperation Agency. 

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Statement - 6A Passenger Revenue statistics & Statement 7A Goods Revenue Statistics

 Statement - 6A Passenger Revenue statistics

• Prepared monthly. 

 

• Prepared class wise, gauge wise

 

• Separately for sub-urban & non-sub-urban traffic 

 

• Separately for season & ordinary traffic 

 

• Source documents are Passenger classification return, blank paper ticket return submitted by each Station to the Traffic Accounts Office (TAO)

 

• Passenger classification consists of 1. Commencing & closing no. of tickets 2. Index No of Non issued tickets, concession tickets, full fare tickets and amount derived there from. 

 

• After checking & coding in the TAO, they are sent to the compilation office for further processing for preparing Statement 6A.  

 

• It is helpful in knowing the trend of the passenger traffic, working out average lead, rate per PKM, fixation of fares etc.

 

• Statement 6A consists of : 

 

1. No. of Passenger Originating 

2. No. of Season Tickets Issued

3. Total no. of Passenger Carried 

4. Passenger Kilometers 

5. Passenger Earning from Passenger Carried 

6. Number and Earnings from Passenger Carried on the System

Statement 7A Goods Revenue Statistics (Advance Information)

• Deals with the no. of wagons, tonnes originating, tonne kms and earning for detailed commodity heads of revenue carried traffic.  

• Compiled on originating basis for the Zonal Railway as a whole.

 

•  Submitted to the Railway Board.  

 

• Separately for Monthly and Cumulative. 

 

• Source: Invoices 

 

• Confined to the Revenue earning traffic only 

 

• Care should be taken in compiling this statement as it is the first monthly advance information for freight trains. 

 

•  Any non-mechanised Revenue traffic originating on the railway should be included in this statement and also shown in a separate Annexure.  

 

• 7A Statement consists of : 

 

1. Tonnes Originating 

2. Tonne Kilometers 

3. Earnings from Revenue earning goods carried 

4. No. of wagons in terms of 4-wheelers

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Train 18 - Vande Bharat

Vande Bharat - TRAIN 18

400 Vande Bharat Trains will introduced in the next 3 years (2022-25)

·         Semi High speed Intercity train 

·         Engine less train.  That means Train 18 driven by a self-propulsion module sans/without a separate locomotive.

·         Rather than being pulled by a locomotive, 'Train 18' sets are powered by traction motors fitted underneath each coach to render them self-propelled, just like metro trains.

·         Compact set/ pack of 18 coaches.  Coaches cannot be separated like in regular trains.

·         The train has 16 Passenger cars. Driver coach on both ends.

·         Developed by ICF, Chennai. MCF- Modern Coach Factory, Rae Bareli will also manufacture Train 18 in the coming days.

·         Speed - 160 kmph

·         Fully AC Train

·         Estimated cost - Rs. 100 Crores

·         Automatic doors like in Metro train.

·         Footstep in a coach's doorway slides outward only when the train stops at a station.

·         First  train18 set is named as "Vande Bharat Express" and plying between New Delhi and Varanasi.

·         Regenerative braking system - 30% savings in Electricity.

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