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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Getting back on the rails
Revenue from rail freight traffic is increasingly bearing the burden of the cost of passenger traffic. In a high fixed cost industry like the railways this amplifies the impact of a downturn in freight
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Installing bio-toilets a teething problem for Railways
The Railways are facing technical hitches in installing environment-friendly bio-toilets in trains, forcing an extension of the deadline for implementation of the project. All new passenger coaches will have bio-toilets by 2016-17, but retrofitting of the existing coaches are expected to be completed by 2021-22. The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation will fund 50 per cent of the retrofitting cost of two lakh units in the existing 50,000 coaches.
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Panel to expedite land acquisition for railway projects
With a number of railway projects facing delay due to tardy acquisition of land, the Odisha Government has constituted a high-level panel that will work towards facilitating the process. The seven-member
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DMRC will execute Kochi Metro: Chandy
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy asserted here on Wednesday that the Kochi Metro Rail Project would be executed by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) in association with E. Sreedharan in three years. The Chief Minister said he had held talks with Mr. Sreedharan (former Managing Director of DMRC) that there was no change in the government’s resolve that Mr. Sreedharan would oversee the project. “The DMRC and Mr. Sreedharan are our best bet for timely completion of the project. Steps would be taken to remove any impediments to fast completion of the project.”
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Monorail relief from snarls - GMDA to conduct feasibility study
The Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) will conduct a techno-economic feasibility study of the proposed elevated monorail system in the city. An official source today told The Telegraph
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Western Railways seeks commercial use of land along route to fund new corridor
MUMBAI: The Western Railways on Monday sought state government permission for commercial exploitation of 1.13 lakh sq m of land along the Churchgate-Virar route to make the crucial elevated corridor viable.
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35-minute CST-Panvel railway ride by 2019?
MUMBAI: By 2019, you can expect to travel between CST and Panvel within 35 minutes on the proposed elevated corridor, against the 77 minutes it now takes to cover the stretch on the Harbour line. In a
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Railways to try anaerobic bacteria and vacuum technology in toilets
Jairam Ramesh's ministry offers to share half the installation cost for the entire system. Toilets in Indian Railways coaches will soon witness a makeover. The idea is for the conventional open lavatories
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Delhi trains to have green toilets by coming March
There is some good news for activists who have been asking the Indian Railways to sort out the problem of manual scavenging due to the existence of conventional toilets in trains. If Northern Railway officials are to be believed, all trains maintained by the Delhi Division will have bio-toilets, or green toilets as they are popularly called, by the end of this financial year.
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Hooda flags off Rapid Metro trial run
Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday said the state government has prepared a “Multi-Modal Mobility” plan to provide better transport facilities, like Metro and pod taxis, to the people. Haryana is seriously considering running pod taxi in big cities and in Gurgaon, including the old city. Mr Hooda was speaking after flagging off the trial run of Rapid Metro, an intra-city metro service, in Gurgaon which is first of its kind project on Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model in the country and he also laid foundation stone of it’s extension.