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What is the News?
The Minister of Railways has informed Lok Sabha about the National Rail Plan Vision – 2030.
What is the National Rail Plan Vision – 2030?
Prepared by: Indian Railways
Aim: To create a ‘future ready’ Railway system by 2030
Salient Features of the plan
– Formulate strategies based on both operational capacities and commercial policy initiatives to increase the modal share of the Railways in freight to 45%.
– Reduce transit time of freight substantially by increasing the average speed of freight trains to 50Kmph.
– As part of the Plan, Vision 2024 has been launched for accelerated implementation of certain critical projects by 2024 such as 100% electrification, multi-tracking of congested routes, up-gradation of speed to 160 kmph on Delhi-Howrah and Delhi-Mumbai routes and elimination of all Level Crossings on Golden Quadrilateral- Golden Diagonal (GQ/GD)
– Identify new Dedicated Freight Corridors and High-Speed Rail Corridors.
– Assess rolling stock requirement for passenger traffic as well as wagon requirement for freight.
– Assess Locomotive requirements to meet twin objectives of 100% electrification (Green Energy) and increasing freight modal share.
– Sustained involvement of the Private Sector in areas like operations and ownership of rolling stock, development of freight and passenger terminals, development/operations of the track infrastructure.
Source: This post is based on the article “National Rail Plan Vision – 2030 ” published in PIB on 17th Mar 2022.
