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    North Eastern Railway Achieves 75% Electrified Routes In 2021

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    In a bid to move towards environmental conservation, the North Eastern Railway (NER) zone of Indian Railways has electrified more than 75 per cent of its routes.

    North Eastern Railway Zone, primarily being a passenger-oriented system, has positioned itself as one of the prominent zones in providing safe, secure, faster, comfortable and reliable transportation facility to the public during 2021.

    According to the information received by the zonal railway, NER zone would become almost 100 per cent electrified railway by the end of this year 2022.

    It also informed that after electrification of main routes the expenditure on high-speed diesel (HSD) has been considerably reduced registering a saving of Rs 361 Crores.
    Working on green energy NER has started a CUF (Capacity Utilization Factor) based solar monitoring system last year, which has resulted in 26 per cent higher solar energy generation as compared to the corresponding period of last year with the same installed capacity of 4.72 MWp.

    At this time, a total of 31 pairs of trains that originate or terminate on the North Eastern Railway are running on HOG system. Also, water recycling plants have been commissioned at 04 stations with a capacity ..

     

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