The newly electrified Dighawara-Bandikui section of Indian Railways’ North Western railway zone was inaugurated by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal.
Electrification of Dighawara-Bandikui section: Recently, the newly electrified Dighawara-Bandikui section of Indian Railways’ North Western railway zone was inaugurated by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. On this newly electrified route, the minister flagged off the very first train at the function organized at Dhigawara railway station. According to Goyal, the electrification operate in Rajasthan was completed on the Kota-Mumbai railway line about 35 years ago, and right after that, no consideration was paid to this location. While functioning on this section, a target has been set by the national transporter to electrify the complete percentage of railway lines across the nation, the minister stated.
While speaking about the state of Rajasthan, the minister stated that till 2009-14, there was no electrification operate in this location which in the final 5 a half years (till September 2020), was 1433 kilometres i.e. 240 kilometres route was electrified by Indian Railways every single year. After this railway line’s electrification, the rail route from Rewari to Ajmer has now been electrified and quickly, electrified train solutions from Delhi to Ajmer will start off, Goyal stated. After operating of these electrified trains, the trains that run on diesel will be stopped. The minister stated the move will remove pollution and also, the dependence on the fuel imported from outdoors. Therefore, trains will run from the electrical energy produced in India, which is anticipated to save important income.
Additionally, the trains’ typical speed will boost and there will be improvement of industries, agro-primarily based companies as properly as progress of farmers and villagers. In a bid to stay away from any inconvenience to the farmers, Indian Railways is operating Kisan Rail to transport their agricultural items. According to the Railway Minister, the operate of electrification is becoming completed by the CORE, Prayagraj. The Central Organization for Railway Electrification sanctioned Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Madar (Ajmer) section’s electrification operate and was handed more than to Rail Electrification project, Jaipur. For the electrification operates on Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Madar (Ajmer) railway section, a total of 23418 foundations, as quite a few as 26 switching stations, six traction sub stations as properly as seven OHE depots have been set up.