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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Parallel routes can derail metro, BRTS efficacy
AHMEDABAD: If you were to superimpose the recently declared map of Rs 15,000-crore 76-km Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro rail route over the Rs 1,350-crore BRTS network map, you'll notice that the buses plying
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Metro rail running down city’s green cover: activists
The city’s trees are giving way to metro rail as about 385 trees will be felled for the on-going construction. Seventy eight trees from the stretch between Washermanpet station and Chennai Airport and 307 from Chennai Fort to St. Thomas Mount are being felled. But the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) claims to have planted over 15,000 saplings and trees last year. “Not just saplings, we have planted trees after they reached primary growth. But most of the planting has been done in the outskirts of the city in many schools, colleges and even in Puzhal,” said an official of CMRL. The transplantation of trees within their habitat has been carried out only for the rare species, he said.
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Railways duped of 700cr by iron ore exporters
New Delhi: A multi-disciplinary investigation has detected a massive fraud by several mining companies by showing transport of iron ore for exports through railways as movement for domestic consumption.
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Adani Mining Pty Ltd- Report for Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Project
<p>Adani Mining Pty Ltd (Adani) is proposing to develop a 60 million tonne (product) per annum (Mtpa) thermal coal mine in the north Galilee Basin approximately 160 kilometres (km) north-west of the town
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Government urged to sanction mono rail project
One of the resolutions the Coimbatore Corporation Council passed at the Monday’s meeting urged the State Government to sanction a mono rail project for the city. The Mayor proposed the resolution and the Council unanimously accepted it. The Council resolution comes after various associations urged the civic body to take up the issue as the city badly deserved one. More than a fortnight ago, the Residents Awareness Association of Coimbatore urged the Corporation to take up the proposal, saying that cities with far lesser population, area and financial wherewithal had made considerable progress in getting sanction for a mass transport project and a few even commencing preliminary work.
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Plan to create high-speed corridor for NCR
‘Cabinet note being prepared for circulation to all stakeholders for starting work’ If the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) sources are to be believed, a high-speed corridor connecting all the important towns/areas of NCR can be a reality in future. The high-speed corridors are aimed at improving the connectivity to facilitating better commuting in the region. The NCRPB had prepared a functional plan last year for creating a transport system for NCR-2032. The plan recommended eight regional rapid transit system (RRTS) corridors to connect various towns/areas of NCR, of which the Centre prioritised three corridors for implementation in consultation with the State governments.
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Ready to share cost of rail eco toilets: Ramesh
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has stated his ministry is ready to share half the cost of introducing eco-friendly toilets in Indian Railways coaches. Ramesh, who inspected the bio-digester based
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Delhi nod for NFR project
Silchar, Sept. 19: The Union forest and environment ministry has granted final approval for acquisition of 3.6 hectares of forest land inside Barail reserve forest in Dima Hasao district to enable Northeast
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Won’t let MMRDA cut trees till details are given’
The BMC Tree Authority refused to consider any request from the MMRDA seeking permission to cut trees till it submits a detailed report of how many trees have been transplanted. According to BMC officials, the MMRDA has cut close to 900 trees till now as a part of the Metro project but has failed to show how many were transplanted. Corporator and member of the committee Ameet Satam said despite informing MMRDA to furnish the details at three meetings, it has failed to act. As per rules, any person, organisation or government agency seeking to cut trees for infrastructure expansion has to either transplant the uprooted trees or plant twice the number of trees cut.
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Centre to support metro rail in 19 cities: Prime Minister
Metro rail projects are currently under implementation in seven cities Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said metro rail projects would start in 19 cities, which have a population of more than 2 million. Addressing the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Kochi Metro project here, Singh said, “We have taken a decision to support preparation of detailed project reports for metro rail projects in all the 19 cities with population of more than 2 million. DPRs have already been prepared for 12 cities.” The first phase links Aluva to Petta.