- Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal informed that Indian Railway (IR) Ministry plans to electrify allbroad gauge (BG) routes by December 2023.
Key Points:
- As a target to electrify 4,310 km of BG route in the year 2023-2024 (till December 2023), it is planned to electrify a total of 28,810 km of BG route.
- As part of its solar mission, it plans to source approximately 1000 megawatt (MW) of solar power & to source around 200 MV of wind power, based on the techno-commercial assessment.
- Out of this power, about 82 MW(101.42 MW of solar & 103.4 MW of wind power) is already set up on the network
- Apart from the above to reduce the fuel burden of IR, it also planned to install land-based solar plantson unused rail land across India to meet its energy requirements for traction and non-traction purposes.
