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Operation of Merry-Go-Round (MGR) System by Railways rakes, a penalty of 4% on freight paid on actual number of rakes loaded in a

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Rates Circular No. J of 2016

भारत सरकार (GOVERNMENT OF INDIA) रेल मंत्रालय (MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS) रेलवे बोर्ड (RAILWAY BOARD)

No. TCR/1078/2008/1 New Delhi, dated y'3.03.2016

The General Manager, All Indian Railways.

Sub: Operation of Merry-Go-Round (MGR) System by Railways.

In order to provide an economical and reliable alternative short lead traffic, a revised scheme of operation under MGR System has been formulated by Board as detailed below:

2. Operation of MGR:

The guidelines specifying terms and conditions for operation of MGR system are given below:

(1) All proposals for MGR system should be approved by the General Manager of the concerned Zonal Railway on the recommendations of the Committee consisting of COM, CCM and FA&CAO of the Zonal Railway.

(it) The MGR Terminals at both ends shall be privately owned. The customer owning the terminals will provide necessary infra-structure for efficient loading and unloading operations.

(i) The MGR Terminals should have FOIS connectivity and operated under Terminal Management System (TMS) and enabled for e-payment of freight and other charges to the railways. Freight payment should be in line with the guidelines issued for e-payment of freight.

(iv) Rail track between the two terminals should be provided by the customer. The track should be fit for running of goods train with axle load of 22.9 tonne at a speed not lower than 40 kmph.

(v) Signaling equipments shall be provided by the Railways at their costs.

(vit) The customer shall maintain the terminals, rail track and other assets owned by them in accordance with the standards specified by Railway. However, the responsibility for maintaining the terminals. rail track and other assets owned by the customer can be entrusted to Railways on payment of usual charges as per separate agreement for this purpose.

(vil) Railways will provide locos, wagons, brake-vans and other rolling stock as per requirement for running of the rakes under MGR system.

(vill) Railways wil deploy one rake of BOBRN or BOXN as the case may be.

Customer should offer loading of minimum one rake per day under the MGR system. More than one rake will be supplied if there is justified need.

(ix) Terminals at both ends will operate round the clock.

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Permissible free time will be 3 hours for loading and 2 hours for unloading in case of BOBRN and 3 hours for loading and 5 hours for unloading in case of BOXN wagons.

Normal demurrage rules will apply at both the terminals for detention of rake beyond free time.

Customer shall provide an in-motion electronic weighbridge at the loading point to ensure that there is no overloading of wagons. If the wagons are overloaded, extant rule for levy of punitive charges shall apply.

3. Charging for MGR Traffic:

(1)

(ii)

Lump-sum rates shall be charged under the MGR System which would depend upon the number of rakes to be loaded per day and the lead of traffic.

Different rates have been notified for loading of one rake per day, two rakes per day or three rakes per day by deploying single rake in the operation.

Number of rakes per day will be arrived at by dividing the total number of rakes committed by the customer for the full year divided by 365. Fractions may be converted into the lower integer for the purpose of charging.

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(iv)

lf AB & Co. wants to utilize one rake of BOBRN wagons owned by Railways and commits to load 700 rakes per year for a lead of 15 kms, the number of rakes per day to be loaded by the customer will be 700/365= 1.8 rounded off to one rake per day and chargeable rate will be = 94.40 per tonne for distance slab of 11 — 20 kms

Distance-wise lump-sum rates under this System for the year 2016-17 are given in the Annexure. The Distance-wise lump-sum rates effective for the next year 1.6. 2017-18 will be 4% higher over the preceding year i.e. 2016-17.

These freight rates shall remain app

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