Overhead electric poles stand over a rail track in Bana village in the district of Latehar, Jharkhand. (Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg)
India is likely to miss its target of railway electrification of broad-gauge routes this financial year, which could delay the government’s deadline of bringing all train routes in the nation under the grid by 2021-22.Indian Railways has electrified less than a third of its targeted 7,000 route kilometres of railroad as on November, the transporter said in response to queries by BloombergQuint under the Right to Information Act. The ...