Thursday 19 January 2017

" Mission 41K " unveiled by union railway ministry


All of you are familiar what is indian railways as I expect almost all of you once travelled in Indian railways. Railways were introduced in 1853 from Mumbai to thane. It was the first journey of railways.
Since then railways changes the view of traveling. India is highly dependent on railways as it is reported that during 2015-16 , the revenue of Indian railways was recorded at 1.709 trillion (US$ 25 billion) with crossing the net income of 105.02 billion ( US$ 1.6 billion).

 I know most of you didn't expected this much amount of money revenued and earned. But yes , it is truth therefore Indian government is working die hard to make indian railways services better.

With respect to new policies , Indian union railway ministry unvieled "Mission 41K" to save INR 41,000 crore spend on  Indian railways expenditure for coming 10 years on energy consumption.

MOTTO


  • This target that union railway ministry set of "Mission 41K" will be achieved by taking some appropriate and slew measure which will include moving 90 % of traffic to electric traction dependable onto Diesel which is presently 50 per cent of total rail traffic.
  • Another goal that union railway ministry set is to procure a very large amount of electricity at a very cheap and affordable price through open market instead of sourcing electricity through DISCOMs and thus to save atleast of 25 per cent on its energy expenses.
  • In the previous budget union ministry of railways had already set a target of generating 1000 MW of solar power and 200 MW of wind power respectively.
  • According to recent news, new technologies also will export to bring down electric consumption.
  • All of this mission will help Indian railways to reduce the dependance on change energy mix , imported fuel and  to rationalize energy cost.

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