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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Railways must reduce consumption of water: Chavan
Mumbai: Chief minister Ashok Chavan has asked the railways to look for other sources of water to meet their daily requirements. The Central and Western Railway require about 38.52 lakh litres of water of which the former consumes nearly 23.40 lakh litres to wash local train coaches.
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Railways launch scheme for RO water in NE stations
AGARTALA, Dec 21: In order to ensure better passenger amenities, Ministry of Railways has announced to make available free quality drinking water round-the-clock at railway stations in the northeastern states through Reverse Osmosis (RO) process. Railway officials here said a similar scheme was introduced in other parts of the country recently and it had yielded a better result.
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Green wheels
India may have recently vowed to slash carbon emissions by 20-25 per cent but Mumbai's new electrical suburban trains are already speeding ahead of this target. These local trains curb carbon emissions by 40 per cent and save 30 per cent more electricity than a normal train. The saving is made through the regenerative braking system, which reuses electricity for other trains on the same line.
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Maneka rail remark not fair: Mamata
Former Union minister and BJP MP Maneka Gandhi may claim that the Indian Railways is the "biggest smuggler" of the wildlife and cattle in the country. But Ms Gandhi's allegation was dubbed as unfair by railway minister Mamata Banerjee.
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Singur curse yet to lift
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Bengal clears Didi plan for Singur coach unit
The Left Front government in West Bengal today agreed to Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee
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West Bengal agrees to hand over Singur site to Railways
KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has agreed in principle to hand over the site at Singur
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Farmers want their land back
DIBYAJYOTI CHAUDHURI : The state government might be willing to hand over land at Singur to the railway ministry for setting up a coach factory there and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee might still be adamant with her demand of giving back 400 acres of land to unwilling farmers, but both the sides have forgotten to take into account the sentiments of the farmers.
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Rail transit in America: a comprehensive evaluation of benefits
This study evaluates rail transit benefits based on a comprehensive analysis of transportation system performance in major U.S. cities.
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A case study of wastewater recycling plant at South Western Railways, Bangalore
Recycling of water has assumed great importance worldwide due to water scarcity in urban areas. Use of fresh water for non potable secondary purposes will have huger burden on natural resources. Based on this objective, a water recycling plant was designed with tertiary treatment consisting of biological contractors for the South Western Railways, Bangalore.