Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw laid the foundation stone of a new hangar for standard and broad gauge rolling stock, manufacturing BEML Bengaluru on Sunday.
RITES Limited, a leading engineering consultancy firm, on Monday signed a contract agreement for supplying 200 broad gauge passenger carriages to Bangladesh Railways.
Built at a cost of Rs 1,714 crore, the project is spread over 747 acres and is located near the intersection of eastern and western dedicated freight corridors, with the Eastern Peripheral Expressway to the south and the Delhi-Howrah broad gauge railway line to the east.
A total of 59,524 km length of broad gauge (BG) rail line has been electrified in India so far, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed Parliament in a written reply.
Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronic & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha said, "As on 30.06.2023, 59,096 Route kilometres (RKM) of Broad Gauge network of Indian Railways (IR) have been electrified. Out of wh
In another major step towards completion of Dimapur-Kohima new Broad Gauge Line connectivity project, Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway) recently achieved a major milestone in the third phase of the project by achieving breakthrough of tunnel no 15 between Menguzuma and Zubza stations,
"Before 2014, Railway's budget for North East was Rs 2,500 crore. Now it is more Rs 10,000 crore, which is 4X growth. All parts of the Northeast will soon be connected via the broad-gauge network. Rs 1 lakh crore is being spent on the same," he added.
To further strengthen the bilateral relationship, BG locomotives were virtually flagged off to Bangladesh in a handing-over ceremony held at Rail Bhavan New Delhi
On the lines of setting the target of achieving net zero carbon emitter by 2030, the Indian Railways has completely electrified the existing broad gauge network in Odisha.
Aiming to achieve the target of Net Zero Carbon Emitter by 2030, the Indian Railways has 100 per cent electrified existing broad gauge network in Chhattisgarh, Ministry of Railways said Saturday.
It also said it was working in a mission mode to become the largest green railway in the world and was moving towards becoming a "net zero carbon emitter" before 2030.