"We have lost about 40 per cent of our business due to Maoist violence and agitations. These have affected railway operation to a great extent," Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said in the Rajya Sabha.
She was winding up the debate on the Railway Budget 2010-11. Indicating that Railway is becoming a soft target for violence, she said the situation was not the same earlier. Railways gross earnings were over Rs 80,338 crore (Rs 803.38 billion) during 2008-09.