Kolkata: Metro Railway gradually emerged from a pandemic shadow, after achieving RS 48.5 Crore income in the first seven months of fiscal now, against the crore Rs 42.6 which cannot be obtained at 2020-21.
Between April and October this year, the Metro has recorded 3 crore passenger travel on 2.6 crore passengers transported last year.
“Metro Kolkata returned to the revival route.
It shows the way forward in the management of crowds during Covid by introducing an e-pass to ensure the distance in the coach.
Metro has now brought back tokens and also started QR-coded tickets.
Globally, railroad systems Metro faces passenger doubts in the pandemic, but our metro, which is the backbone of the city’s public transportation, has recovered passengers in sequence – from 20,000 on the first day to start again 3.7 Rakfall daily lakhs, “said Sanjay Chatterjee, founder of ideas technology solutions who works with the transportation and logistics projects of Kolkata for Kolkata.
The train board has prepared a steep target of Rs 264.3 Crore for 2021-2022 to redeem a large losses that occur in the last financial year.
Metro relies on increasing footsteps to increase tariff income and aggressively study the branding station to increase non-tariff income.
This will be some time before daily passengers throughout the line 1, which is the oldest and most populous Metro in the country, reaching a pre-pandemic daily passenger of 6 lakh to 6.2 lakh.
The facility has won the PLEASE RS 219.5 Crore in 2019-20 and recorded a 20.4 crore cumulative buildup.
“In 2020-2021, the Ridership fell to 2.6 crore because the service was still suspended for six months in the first pandemic year and income down terribly,” officials said.
During the second wave devastated, there was no metro service for 61 days between May 15 and July 15.
Pandemic trigger rules also lead to the income decline.
When the service was continued after hiatu 178 days, the capacity was deliberately reduced to 400 passengers against the pre-pandemic number of 3,000 during rush hour.
Commuter must order e-passes before raising so that the amount of 400 per train can be maintained.
But with the sales tokens permitted, passenger daily jumped from 2.9 lakh to 3.7 lakh, and now inches to the pre-covid level.