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Railways To Become ‘Net Zero Carbon Emitter’ By 2030, Says Piyush Goyal

100 percent electrification, renewable strategies to help Indian Railways achieve its green dream by 2030. 



Passengers stand in the doorways of a train carriage as it arrives at Kurla railway station in Mumbai (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
Passengers stand in the doorways of a train carriage as it arrives at Kurla railway station in Mumbai (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)

Indian Railways will become a "net zero" carbon emitter by 2030, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said today. Speaking at an event, 'The Rail Contact 2018', organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry in collaboration with the Railway Board, Goyal said that the national transporter was going green in a big way.

"With the current action plans on anvil for 100 percent electrification, coupled with renewable strategies, Indian Railways will become a net zero carbon emitter by 2030. However, it is always a team which needs to work in partnership, with a collective effort of working towards a common goal," he said.

Quoting Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, the minister added, "Great things in business are never done by one person. Industry participation is as much important in our mission as to make Indian Railways the newest, finest and safest railways in the world."

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Sharing the scale of modernisation and transformation that the Indian Railways has been able to achieve, the minister said, "We have been able to ramp up track renewal to 476 kilometres every month."

"In the last 64 years, freight loading has increased by 1,344 percent in Indian Railways. Passenger travel in terms of kilometres has increased 1,642 percent." The total investments in 2013-14 in the capital infrastructure of the railways was slated for about Rs 46,000 crore, which has now earnt Rs 1,41,000 crore for this year, he added.

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