The Western Railway (WR) has earned a whopping Rs 517.41 crore by selling scrap material collected from its yards and stores offices in 2018-19, it said in a statement here.
It thus broke the previous record held by the Northern Railway which had earned Rs 403 crore from scrap sale in 2011-12.
The Material Management team of the Western Railway had launched a massive drive to identify and dispose of scrap lying in various railway premises under "Mission Zero Scrap", said chief PRO Ravinder Bhakar.