Indian Railways
By 2030 Indian Railways' carbon emission will be zero: Piyush Goyal
New Delhi/IBNS: Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said that by 2030 there will be a net-zero carbon emission.
Goyal said Indian Railways transports nearly 8 billion passengers and 1.2 billion tonnes of freight every year.
"Ours will be the world's first Railways of this scale to go green," he said.
"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 the world's first railways of this scale to go green," Goyal tweeted.
By 2030 we will be a net-zero railway, our carbon emission will be zero.
— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) August 26, 2020
Indian Railways transports nearly 8 billion passengers and 1.2 billion tonnes of freight every year.
Ours will be the world's first Railways of this scale to go green. pic.twitter.com/x08SmseRrP
"We will have 100 per cent electrified train network by December 2023, the first railway of this scale in the world which will be diesel-free, 100 per cent electric," Goyal said.
India has the fourth-largest rail network in the world after the US, Russia and China.
The country has 67,368 km of tracks with around 7,300 stations, as per government data.
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