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The Waltair Division has achieved its best-ever show successful the archetypal fractional of 2025-2026, mounting caller benchmarks successful freight loading, operational efficiency, and rider amenities, said Divisional Railway Manager Lalit Bohra. All cardinal indicators amusement robust, double-digit growth, highlighting the division’s strategical readying and committedness to work excellence, helium added.
Addressing a media league successful Visakhapatnam connected Saturday (October 04, 2025), Mr. Bohra said that astatine 60 rakes, a day, successful the archetypal six months of the contiguous fiscal, the Division’s show was overmuch higher than the erstwhile champion of 54, a day, during the 2023-24 fiscal year. The Division besides achieved its champion show successful September by loading 62 rakes, a day, during the month. The maturation successful freight from Nagarnar Steel Plant successful Odisha was 85% this year, compared to the erstwhile year. Similarly, the freight maturation from Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) was 36% and from Gangavaram Port was 24%.
The part recorded its best-ever achievements, with important improvements crossed loading capacity, freight earnings, and operational efficiency. Daily loading capableness roseate by 10.78%, portion goods net surged by 12.18% implicit the erstwhile year, helium said.
The Kirandul-Bacheli robust ore loading reached 12.79 cardinal tonnes, registering 21.69% increase. He said that robust ore unsocial contributed an summation of ₹800 crore, signaling a 20.68% leap implicit the erstwhile year. Modernisation of 15 stations successful Waltair Division were being taken up nether the Amrit Bharat initiative, which see Duvvada and Simhachalam stations, located successful Visakhapatnam metropolis limits.
The DRM said that Visakhapatnam Railway Station has handled 1.6 crore originating passengers betwixt April and September this year, and got the highest-ever rider gross of ₹426 crore during the aforesaid period. He said that implicit 1.5 lakh passengers utilised 121 peculiar trains operated up to September 2025. More than 3,300 coaches were added, handling the highest festival rush.
The part has strengthened information with CCTVs, drone surveillance, and body-worn cameras for RPF personnel, on with focused initiatives specified arsenic Meri Saheli, Nanhe Fariste, and Mission Narcotics.
Replying to queries, Mr. Bohra said that vacation specials were operated from Visakhapatnam to Tirupati, Shalimar, Charlapalli and Bengaluru and 23 vacation specials from different destinations besides passed done the Division. He said that doubling enactment connected the KR enactment was being done successful phases. On the Kottavalasa – Kirandul enactment six blocks were remaining of which 2 blocks were captious owed to passageway work. The enactment was scheduled for completion during 2027-2028, helium added.
