- Bid to facilitate freight customers for timely delivery of goods through freight trains.
- Freight customers to get priority for allocation of rake under Premium Indent
- Freight customer will be required to deposit five per cent premium in advance on the normal freight.
- Premium charges will be adjusted in normal freight charges if rake supplied after stipulated time.
Bhubaneswar (Kalinga Voice) : In a bid to facilitate freight customers for timely delivery of goods through freight trains, Ministry of Railways has launched the premium indent policy. Freight customers will get priority for allocation of rake under the premium indent policy.
Freight customers will be required to pay five per cent premium on the normal freight charges which will be deposited in advance. If the rake is supplied later than the indicated date on the indent, the premium paid will be adjusted against the normal freight charges.
Guidelines regarding the Premium Indent Policy by inserting few additional points are as follows:
• The scheme will be optional.
• In sidings, the freight customer can indicate a date of supply of rakes and also indicate whether he/she will load if the rake is supplied after the due date on normal tariff rate.
• Five percent premium shall be required to be paid by the customer on normal freight. This will be deposited in advance.
• The premium will be adjusted against the normal freight charges, in case the supply of the rake to the customer is done later than the indicated date on the indent.
• In the goods shed, freight customer will be permitted to place premium indent. Customers will priority for allocation on two days as notified under the preferential traffic issued by Traffic Transportation Directorate of the Railway Board from time to time. On other days normal order of priority of indents will be followed.
• The Premium Indent that has been placed once cannot be withdrawn. The premium indent withdrawal will invite forfeiture of the premium paid.
• The Premium Indent Policy will not be applicable to restricted destinations and destinations regulated by quota.
