Indian Railways aims to bring down carbon emission to zero by 2030: Piyush Goyal

Indian Railways has set a target of bringing down carbon emission to zero by end of 2030, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday, August 26. Union Minister also said that India will have 100 per cent electrified train network by December 2023. first railway of this scale in world will be diesel-free and 100 per cent electric, he ded.

"By 2030 we will be a net-zero railway, our carbon emission will be zero. Indian Railways transports nearly 8 billion passengers and 1.2 billion tonnes of freight every year. Ours will be world's first railways of this scale to go green," Goyal wrote in his tweet.

'100 per cent electrified by December 2023'

" railways have a mission to be 100 per cent electrified by December 2023. We will have 100 per cent electrified train network by December 2023, first railway of this scale in world which will be diesel-free, 100 per cent electric," Goyal said.

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Union Minister furr said that centre plans to use land along tracks to generate 20 gigawatt of clean energy and solar power equipment used for this purpose will be 'me in India'. Last year, while anuncing railway electrification goal, Union Minister h said centre would shut down old coal plants. experts in this matter have maintained that aver speed of trains will also rise by 10-15 per cent when railways achieve 100 per cent electrification of its network.

India has fourth-largest rail network in world after US, Russia, and China with 67,368 km of tracks and with nearly 7,300 stations, as per government data. According to a report by government's think tank NITI Aayog, Carbon emission from Indian Railways was 6.84 million tonnes in 2014.

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