Railway Board Chairman VK Tripathi within the quarterly evaluate assembly discovered that the operational bills are very prime. In the present monetary yr until May, in all of the seven zones, it has long past neatly above the 26 in line with cent reasonable expansion of the Railways over the similar duration remaining yr.
These zones are Northeast Frontier Railway (37.9 %), Northern Railway (35.3 %), South-Central Railway (34.8 %), South-Western Railway (33.1 %), North-Western Railway (29 %), Western Railway (28 %). ) and North-Central Railway (27.3 %).
In reaction to a query, the Railways informed PTI that the overall budgeted estimate for 2022-23 relating to running bills is Rs 2.32 lakh crore. As the accounts are but to be audited, the related figures are provisional.
The division stated, “Railways have issued guidelines on expenditure control and management of the Ministry of Finance. Austerity and cost-effective measures are being implemented on various fronts. Apart from this, the focus is also on improving inventory management along with optimizing fuel consumption.
Sources said that during the meeting, the Railway Board directed the zones to take “rapid steps” to reduce their expenditure and asked the general managers to prepare an action plan in this regard.
“Expenses like extra time, night time accountability allowance, kilometer allowance will also be managed. It must be monitored.”
In addition, zones like Eastern Railway (ER), Southern Railway (SR), North Eastern Railway (NER) and Northern Railway (NR) wish to keep an eye on kilometer allowance. This allowance is given to the workers running the educate. South-East Central Railway (SECR), East-Central Railway (ECR) and East Coast Railway (ECOR) had been requested to cut back their expenditure on night time accountability allowance.
