Coal: a heavy burden on the Indian railways
India’s power demand is rising more quickly than its renewable capacity additions, accelerating plans to mine, transport and burn up to 65% more thermal coal for electricity generation by 2030. Several
Rail Transport
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Plan to cut greenhouse gases on track
Raghvendra Rao Indian Railways' plan to use state-of-the-art technology to operate Electrical Multiple Units (EMUs) in the Mumbai suburban area, primarily aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and earning them carbon credits, is now on track with the Railways Ministry finalising the project design and initiating the process of getting approval from the Environment Ministry. The project essentially envisages adoption of a three-phase Insulated Gate Bi Polar Transistor (IGBT) technology on the three-phase EMUs in the Mumbai suburban area of the Western and Central Railways.
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Dhumal offers to acquire land for Leh rail project
After the in-principle approval of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to the Himachal Pradesh proposal on the railway line to Leh via Manali and 13,051-foot-high Rohtang Pass, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Tuesday offered to the Centre to undertake the entire land acquisition and rehabilitation process along 400-km Himachal stretch and get a pre-feasibility report on the project prepared by November 30.
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Rail, road links may be made must in airport master plans
THE government is planning to ensure dedicated express rail and road connectivity for future greenfield airports. Mandatory connectivity by mass rapid transit system to airports is expected to be a part of the airport's master plan. The government is planning to build new airports in some of the major cities such as Pune, Navi Mumbai and Vishakhapatnam.
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Meet on Sabari rail
KOTTAYAM: With the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) submitting a negative Environment Impact Study (EIS) report on the Sabari Rail from Angamali to Azhutha, the meeting scheduled by the district and Railway authorities on August 4 at Pala to hear the complaints of the aggrieved in the land acquisition for the railway line, may turn out to be a noisy affair.
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Projections of investment in infrastructure during the Eleventh Plan
The Eleventh Five Year Plan has set an ambitious target of increasing total investment in infrastructure from around 5% of GDP in the base year of the Plan 2006-07 to 9% by the terminal year 2011-2012.
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Sabari rail line not viable
Babu K Peter | ENS Kochi THE Sabari Rail project is all set to chug into history. After 14 years of surveys and discussions, it is a NO for the project. The Environment Impact Assessment study jointly conducted by the Kerala Forest Research Institute in association with Kerala State Biodiversity Board termed the project as "unviable and superfluous."
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Maytas consortium bags Hyderabad metro rail project
A consortium led by Maytas Infra Ltd, a real estate infrastructure company promoted by Satyam Computer owners, has bagged the country's first urban transit project on public private partnership (PPP) mode by quoting a negative grant to the Andhra Pradesh government.
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Northern Railway collects over Rs 4 lakh through cleanliness drives
Northern Railway (NR) is continuing with its cleanliness drive at Charbagh station. On Tuesday, three persons were caught for littering the station area and Rs 100 was recovered from each of them as fine. Besides, ten people were fined Rs 2,714 for roaming without platform ticket and one person was fined Rs 200 for smoking at the platform. In the past five months of action, the special task force has mopped up Rs 4,00,162 as railway revenue by slapping a fine on 1,832 people caught littering the station, moving without platform ticket and smoking at the platforms. TNN
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Showers flood roads, rail lines
Children walk on tracks after rain disrupted rail traffic in Ranchi on Thursday. Picture by Prashant Mitra Ranchi, July 22: Heavy rain lashed the state capital today, inundating several areas and swamping railway tracks. Movement of several trains was affected, though the situation was not as alarming as it was in Jamshedpur when it experienced record rainfall in a day in June. The Ranchi-Lohardaga railway tracks at Ranchi Junction were waterlogged.
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SCR, state fight on road widening
Hyderabad, July 14: The South Central Railway and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation have flung accusations at each other before the High Court over the acquisition of railway properties for road widening between Tarnaka and Sangeet theatre in the city. The Special Deputy Collector for Land Acquisition in GHMC had issued a notification for acquiring railway properties on May 30 this year. The SCR challenged the notification and the High Court stayed the notification till further orders.