Moving away towards an efficient and environment-friendly route Indian Railways would go fully electric by 2024. Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal informed during his interaction with media on Monday.
Mr. Goyal said, ” By the year 2024, we expect the entire Indian Railways to be running 100 percent on electricity. It would be the first railway network in the world to be running fully on electricity.”
The minister further informed that the entire Indian railway network would become a “net-zero emission network” by 2030. The aim is to go for no emission from the railways, and to run it on clean energy and clean power said the minister.
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The discussions were made during the India-Brazil Business Forum. The forum is been organized from January 26 to 27.
