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Important Policy Measures for Freight Customers_Rates Branch (Commercial Dte)/Railway Board

· 2025-06-30
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Date2025-06-30
TypeCorrigendum
Topicfreight
DirectorateTraffic Commercial

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Important Policy Measures for Freight Customers_Rates Branch (Commercial Dte)/Railway Board

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Important Policy Measures for Freight Customers_Rates Branch (Commercial Dte)/Railway Board 
 
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Important Policy Measures for Freight Customers 
 
(Indicating Initiatives taken during December 2024 – March 2025) 
 
Ministry of Railways has taken a number of freight policy measures to promote movement of 
goods traffic through railways. List of initiatives duly referring policy circular are given below. 
For full details of the initiatives, customers may visit the webpage of Traffic Commercial 
Directorate on Indian Railway‟s website.  
 
Customers may get in touch with Sr. Divisional Commercial Manager at Division level or Chief 
Commercial Manager(FM) at Zonal Railway level for any freight traffic related query.  
 
Customers may also visit the website of FOIS (www.fois.indianrail.gov.in) to know more about 
freight traffic and policies.  They can get all requisite information e.g. freight class and rate for 
all commodities; position of indent/demand for each station; outstanding indents, 
shortest/popular routes, terminal handling facilities and freight calculator. Customers can track 
and trace their rakes while logging their accounts in FOIS.  
 
1.0 
FREIGHT INCENTIVE SCHEME 
 
 
With a view to offer a competitive Freight Rates to customers and, thereby, attracting 
more traffic to rail, a number of Freight Incentive Schemes have been launched by Indian 
Railways namely Liberalized Automatic Freight Rebate Scheme for traffic loaded in 
Traditional Empty Flow direction (TEFD), Merry Go Round (MGR), Concession on 
short lead traffic, Station to Station (STS) rates, etc.  
 
TEFD provides automatic rebate from the computerized FOIS system shall become 
available to customers offering traffic in inter-zonal/intra-zonal traditional empty flow 
direction subject to fulfillment of certain terms and conditions stipulated in this policy 
(refer Rates Circular No.9 of 2024 and amendments thereto). Under MGR, concession is 
granted on movement of coal traffic in closed circuit (Rates Circular No.7 of 2016 and 
amendments thereto).Under Short lead concession, graded concession is granted on 
movement of traffic upto 100 Kms (Rates Circular No.20 of 2016 and amendments 
thereto).Under STS, concession is granted on incremental traffic over benchmark 
NTKM(Rates Circular No.15 of 2022 and amendments thereto) 
 
Link of the Policy Circulars: 
 
Freight Incentive Schemes 
 
 
Initiatives taken during December, 2024 
 
 Freight Incentive Scheme for Fly Ash/Bed Ash has been introduced to generate 
additional loading of Fly Ash/Bed Ash and to improve utilization of rolling stock. 
Rates Circular No.19 of 2024

Important Policy Measures for Freight Customers_Rates Branch (Commercial Dte)/Railway Board 
 
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 The validity of guidelines for non levy of Terminal Charge in case of Automobile 
Traffic has been extended till 30.06.2025. 
Corrigendum 5 to Rates Circular No.14 of 2019 
 
Initiatives taken during January, 2025 
 
 Policy guidelines for concession to Short Lead Traffic has been extended till 
31.12.2025. 
Corrigendum No.06 to Rates Circular No.16 of 2020 
 
Initiatives taken during February, 2025 
 
 Freight Rate for Rail-Sea-Rail (RSR) movement of Domestic Coal has been issued. 
Rates Circular No.3 of 2025 
 
Initiatives taken during March, 2025 
 
 Revision in the percentage of Rebate in freight for traffic transportation in privately 
owned wagons.  
(Rates Circular No.06 of 2025) 
 
 Guidelines for Liberalised Automatic Freight Rebate Scheme for the traffic loaded in 
Traditional Empty Flow Directions (TEFD) have been extended for a period of one 
year i.e. upto 31.03.2026 
(Corrigendum No.03 to Rates Circular No.09 of 2024) 
 
 Guidelines regarding Freight Incentive Scheme for loading Bagged Consignment in 
Open and Flat Wagons have been extended for a further period of one year i.e. upto 
31.03.2026 
(Corrigendum No.10 to Rates Circular No.27 of 2016) 
 
2.0 
TRANSPORTATION PRODUCT 
 
 
Full rake movement is benef

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