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Thursday 27 August 2020

Report of the foremost beautiful railways within the country: Kashmir trains are closed for the last one year, daily loss of Rs 3 lakh; Railway workers got a salary of Rs 150 crore in 8 months sitting reception


Report of the foremost beautiful railways within the country: Kashmir trains are closed for the last one year, daily loss of Rs 3 lakh; Railway workers got a salary of Rs 150 crore in 8 months sitting reception




Train service is usually closed by Jammu and Kashmir. Railway service was disrupted for 3 months when Article 370 was removed last year then thanks to Corona, the railway service was pack up in March this year which has not started yet.

The administration of Jammu and Kashmir also has got to pay Rs 24 crore per month to quite a thousand railway workers.

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Railway service in Kashmir was suspended at the time of removal of Article 370 which started in November 2019, was closed again in March thanks to Corona
In order to market tourism within the Kashmir Valley, the then Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu had said in 2017 that a 'Vistadom' coach would be run here. it's been quite three years now, coaches are a thing of the past, railway services in Kashmir are closed for quite 8 months within the last year and are still stalled.



This is costing the railway department crores of rupees in revenue. At an equivalent time, the railways and therefore the Jammu and Kashmir administration need to pay crores of rupees monthly to quite 3800 railway employees.

The railway services running within the valley are the third and final phase of railway services between Jammu and Kashmir. the primary is Jammu-Udhampur, the second is Udhampur-Banihal (which has not started yet) and therefore the third is Banihal-Baramulla, which started partially in 2008 and remains happening. 



The Banihal-Baramulla railway line features a total length of 135 km. There are 19 stations in Kashmir, 9 of which are between Banihal and Srinagar in south Kashmir.

The Banihal-Baramulla railway line features a total length of 135 km. There are 19 stations in Kashmir, 9 of which are between Banihal and Srinagar in South Kashmir.

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In South Kashmir, there have been many days when the railway service between Banihal and Srinagar has suspended thanks to occasional demonstrations and encounters.

When a curfew was imposed on August 4 last year, each day before the removal of Article 370, the system suspended railway services, a senior railway official said. And if the lockdown was imposed thanks to the present Corona, the railway service would are suspended not only in South Kashmir but within the whole of Kashmir.



The railway service was approved to start out on Veterans Day last year, a railway official said. The train continued for 4 months with no restrictions, but a lockdown was imposed on March 20 this year to stop the spread of corona within the Kashmir Valley then the railway service was pack up again.

From then so far we've been sitting, chatting within the office, and going back range in the evening. The railway official said that if the train was stopped for at some point, the railway department would lose about Rs 3 lakh.


Summer revenue is over 3 lakhs. In terms of revenue alone, the department has lost Rs 7.2 crore in eight months thus far. The damage to the department was thanks to the non-operation of 26 trains in summer and 24 trains in winter. before this, train service was closed for about 4 months in 2016, then 56 days in 2017 and 40 days in 2018.

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Apart from this, there's also the loss that the railways need to pay monthly within the sort of salary. There are 2800 railway employees in Kashmir Valley. There are 25 people that earn Rs 1.5 lakh per month. There are 1800 employees who earn 80 thousand per month and 600 employees who earn 30 thousand per month. a complete of Rs 126 crore is incurred by the department for celery here.

There are 2800 railway employees in Kashmir Valley. The department has got to pay them about Rs 126 crore as salary.
Apart from these employees, there are 1,000 people that are locals here and that they got jobs within the department because their land was removed when the railway track was built here. The salary of those people is paid by the Govt of Jammu and Kashmir. consistent with sources, these people earn Rs. Takes 30,000 as celery. consistent with this calculation, his monthly income is Rs 3 crore and he has been paid Rs 24 crore within the last 8 months. Now aside from this, the value of maintenance is additionally crores of rupees.

Train service has been suspended in Kashmir thanks to encounters and demonstrations. This has also hurt the department.

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According to officials, 1.5 lakh elastic rail clits (ERCs) were faraway from railway lines in 2017-18 thanks to protests. Which one involves 55 rupees. Even for this small thing, the railways charge Rs. 82 lakh has been spent. If the damage done to the railways during the protests in 2016, 2017, and 2018 is taken under consideration, it's also likely to be worth crores of rupees. Although there are not any protests at the present, the damage is being done.

Officials say the service is unlikely to resume at the present. Tourism in Kashmir, on the opposite hand, is nearly closed and things like Vistadom could boost the revenue of the railway department in Kashmir, but there's no point in starting it at the present.

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