The revenue of the railways from freight movement has gone up by more than eight per cent between April-December 2017 as compared to the same period previous year. Mohd Jamshed, Member, Traffic, Railway Board, said earning from freight in 2017 (April- December) were Rs.80,691 crore, while in the same period in 2016, it earned the railways Rs.76,288 crore. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal recently said that the railways had set a target to triple its freight traffic to three billion tonnes by 2030 from the existing 1.1 billion tonnes.
