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The South Coast Railway Zone
February 12 , 2025
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- The Union Cabinet ex post facto approved the plan to create the new South Coast Railway Zone.
- The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of the South Coast Railway headquarters in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
- The SCoR zone will be the 18th zone of the Indian Railways.
- Its jurisdiction has been carved out from parts of the East Coast Railway and South-Central Railway zones.
- It will cover a significant portion of Andhra Pradesh, along with the parts of Telangana and Tamil Nadu.
- The Cabinet also divided the Waltair Railway Division (earlier under the East Coast Railway) into two parts.
- Citing its colonial-era name, the government has renamed the first part as the Visakhapatnam Railway Division and included it under the new zone.
- The other part will also be converted into a new division with headquarters at Rayagada, Odisha, under the East Coast Railway.
- The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has surpassed all records of Indian Railways in Freight Loading in the Financial Year 2023-24.
- From April 1, 2023, to March 25, 2024, ECoR loaded 250 million tons of freight, surpassing the record set during the 2022-23 fiscal.
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