Indian Railways intends to electrify 4000 km lines in the current fiscal year, a 50 per cent increase compared to the last year’s target of 2000 km.
The electrification of the lines is among company’s top priorities as it is decided to drastically decrease the use of diesel in order to reduce energy cost and greenhouse gas emission.
Currently, only 42 per cent of total track network is electrified, rest section is operating on fossil fuel.
During the last three years (2014-2017) and for 2017-18, total number of 93 railway electrification projects consisting 16,815 route km have been included in the Budget.
The electrification programme has been increased from present average of 1700 km route per annum to 4000 km in 2017-18, a senior Railway Ministry official said.
According to the action plan, about 22,000 km route has to be electrified by 2021.
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