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“Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) Batteries” and “National Hydrogen Mission” are two flagship programs of Government of India so as to meet out the targets of reducing Green House Gas (GHG) emission under Paris Climate Agreement 2015 and “Mission Net Zero Carbon Emission Railway” by 2030. Accordingly, there has been recent budgetary pronouncement to kick off the concept of Hydrogen Mobility in the Country. Accepting it as a challenge, Indian Railways Organization of Alternate Fuel (IROAF), Green Fuel vertical of Indian Railways, has invited the bids for Hydrogen Fuel Cell based Train on Railways Network. The project shall commence in 89km ... Read more

Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan was announced on 20.06.2020 for 125 days i.e., up to 22.10.2020. The Indian Railways identified 143 numbers of ongoing infrastructure projects like doubling of railway line, electrification of line, construction of new line, construction of Bridge/Road over Bridge, Signaling works etc. for expediting the progress of these projects, under Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan in six selected States. Details are as under: S.No. State No. of Infrastructure Projects 1 Bihar 36 2 Jharkhand 4 3 Madhya Pradesh 28 4 Odisha 6 5 Rajasthan 16 6 Uttar Pradesh 53 Total 143 Indian Railways generated 14,14,604 mandays during the ... Read more

Freight figures continue to maintain the high momentum in terms of earnings and loading in the month of April 2021 for Indian Railways. Railways recorded more than 10% increase in Freight loading as compared to normal year of 2019-20. Previous best April was 101.04 MT in April 2019. On mission mode, Indian Railways’ Freight loading for the month of April 2021 was 111.47 million tonnes which includes 51.87 million tonnes of Coal, 14.83 million tonnes of Iron Ore, 3.47 million tonnes of Foodgrains, 2.53 million tonnes of Fertilizers, 3.58 million tonnes of Mineral Oil, 7.1 million tonnes of Cement (excluding clinker) ... Read more

These coaches is having passenger capacity of 83 berths These LHB Economy class coaches, after necessary sanctions, shall be inducted in all Mail / Express trains running with LHB coaches (except Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto and Jan Shatabdi etc. special type trains) Posted On: 20 MAR 2021 2:06PM by PIB Delhi Indian Railways Production Unit, Railway Coach Factory, Kapurthala has recently rolled out the first prototype Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) AC three-tier economy class coach of Indian Railways (IR). Trial has been successfully completed. This is a new variant of LHB AC three-tier coach with features enumerated as below:- Electrical panels ... Read more