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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Proposed rail link passes through elephant corridor
KOLKATA: Concerns have been voiced about one of the three proposed railway lines in the project to provide railway connectivity to Bhutan, as it would pass through an important elephant corridor in north Bengal. The project, announced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his visit to Bhutan in May 2008, is keenly awaited by the people of the country because it will be the first time that rai
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Railways to run Sealdah-Howrah vehicles for old & infirm
KOLKATA, 11 OCT: Railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today inaugurated 10 battery-operated environment friendly 10-seater small vehicles at Sealdah Railway station. Miss Banerjee said the vehicles will ply between Sealdah and Howrah railway stations and will carry senior citizens and physically-challenged people free of cost. She inaugurated long-distance trains between Sealdah and Ajmer, Sea
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NGOs try special guns to slow trains, check jumbo deaths
Two weeks after seven wild elephants were killed by a speeding train in Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, three well-known environment protection groups have successfully carried out demonstration of an imported speed-detection gun on trains in an elephant corridor near Guwahati.
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Landslides cut off N-E
Massive landslides triggered by incessant rains in the past few days have cut off road links between Nagaland and Manipur with several stretches of the NH 39 being washed away or buried under debris. While a major landslide took place in Nagaland capital Kohima, the national highway was also cut off at Tobio village, seven km from Tadubi in Manipur.
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Trumpet As Alarum
* Elephant corridors have no legal protection under Wildlife (Protection) Act or the Environment (Protection) Act * Many corridors have now become private land and areas under human use (road/rail) * There is no dedicated money for corridor protection, experts demand Rs 200 crore for this in the 12th five-year plan *** The first news despatches brought out all the brutal detail: a
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Speed gun to check overspeeding trains
Guwahati: Environment activists on Thursday successfully tested a speed-detection gun on a train passing by a bird sanctuary in Guwahati. The demonstration for forest officials toward enforcing train speed restrictions is aimed at preventing elephants being run over. People for Ethical Treatment to Animals (PETA) had in response to the killing of seven elephants by speeding trains in West Be
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Decks cleared for Delhi-Panipat high-speed train
<p>The Haryana Government has given its nod for the India’s first high-speed train project, after a high-level meeting held at Chandigarh under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda recently.
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Rail claims 19 halts to save jumbos
Alipurduar/Siliguri, Sept. 30: Railway staff have spotted wild elephants close to the tracks and stopped trains 19 times since September 22 when seven jumbos were mowed down by a speeding goods train in Banarhat, the Northeast Frontier Railway has claimed.
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New rail route: farmers seek rehabilitation package
Tirupur: The 91.5-km long new railway route project coming up between Erode and Palani via Dharapuram and Kangeyam in Tirupur district has started giving the initial share of headaches to the implementing authorities at the land acquisition stage itself. A group of farmers from Dharapuram, Kangeyam and Kundadam areas thronged the Collectorate recenlty asking the district administration to come
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DoNER to speed up project sanctioning
Faced with criticism over the delay in sanctioning of Non-Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) projects, Union Minister for DoNER and Mines Bijoy Krishna Handique traced the lapse on part of the States in securing the mandatory clearance from Central ministries to delay in sanctioning of projects by the concerned Ministries. While retaining, sanctioning or approving projects under NLCPR o