Indian Railways goes eco-friendly!!

In the need to become environment-friendly, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has taken a lot of steps in the past few years. Be it solar power plants or bio-toilets, a lot of measures has been taken by him as the Go- Green Initiative. they have also put a ban of single-use plastic material with less than 50-micron thickness, from 2nd October 2019. 

 Indian Railways has imposed a ban on single-use plastic material, with less than 50-micron thickness. All railway officials have been asked to reduce, reuse and refuse plastic items. Moreover, plastic bottle crushing machines have also been installed at various stations. Indian Railways has once again started encouraging the use of terracotta-made ‘kulhads’ at stations. Varanasi and Rae Bareli stations have already started using terracotta-made ‘kulhads’. 

The national transporter is aiming to become the world’s first-of-its-kind big railway network to be fully electrified and also to be the first-ever ‘Net-Zero’ railway. Indian Railways is also setting up solar panels over rooftops at stations and railway buildings. Earlier this year, the national transporter planned to install 1000 MW solar power by 2020-2021. This move would help the transporter to source about 10% of electrical energy from a renewable source. Over the last few years, several bio-toilets have been installed in train coaches.