TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ The government has decided to move towards achieving 100 per cent electrification of railways, as part of efforts to curb carbon footprints, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. The railways minister also said he has a mission that in next 10 years, Indian Railways will be running on renewable energy.
“We have decided to move towards 100 per cent electrified railway. We will be the world’s first large railways…nearly 1,20,000 km of track, which will be 100 per cent electrified. Imagine how much carbon we will reduce from the entire atmosphere,” Goyal said here.
He was speaking at CII’s Sustainability Summit. He said more than half of the trains that come to New Delhi are still based on diesel but the ministry is working on their electrification. “A year from now, more trains coming to New Delhi will be electrified..we are ensuring that all of them are end-to-end electrified,” he added.
