So, Patiala station bagged DRM award for maximum earning of Rs 200 cr , for year 2014-15 in the entire UMB division. You can refer to this blog post :
/blog/post/1441620 . According to NR HQ, the route is already a profit route. They had told me in Jan 2015 , that the current ROR of this route .i.e. Rajpura-Patiala-Dhuri-Bathinda is +16% (Which currently include the freight trains only), that is why the Doubling and Electrification had been sanctioned for this section.
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