The Railways section covers the key trends and developments in the freight and passenger segments, recent policy developments, current status of major projects such as the Dedicated Freight Coirridor, high speed rail, etc.; captital investment and financing; key issues and challenges.
Ministry of Railways, freight traffic, passenger traffic, high speed rail, Dedicated Freight Corridor, zonal railways, earnings, project commissioned, bidding, energy consumption, signalling, train control
In the past year, the railway sector posted an increase in capacity, both in terms of commissioning of new lines as well as electrification of existing ones. […]
Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, union minister for railways, shared his views on the performance of the sector in the “Two Year Performance Report” released by the ministry… […]
Despite being one of the most eco-friendly modes of transport, Indian Railways (IR) is one of the biggest energy consumers in the country, utilising about 18 billion units (BUs) per year. […]
As megacities around the world struggle to cope with congested roadways and airways, high speed rail (HSR) offers a competitive and sustainable mass transit solution with immense capacity, speed and passenger comfort. […]
The equipment and technology market can broadly be divided into three categories – drill and blast equipment, tunnel boring machines (TBMs) and other equipment. Tunnelling equipment is usually acquired through purchase of new machinery, purchase […]
Tunnel construction requires various types of materials including explosives, concrete, steel, shotcrete material, lattice girders and rock reinforcement supplies. Materials used in tunnelling vary with the design and construction methods chosen for each project. The […]
Significant progress in technology as well as increasing focus on cost efficiency and safety have necessitated vast changes in the methods and techniques employed in tunnelling. […]
The Make in India initiative is one of the premier programmes of the government aiming to place the country on the global map as an important manufacturing hub. […]
With an investment of over Rs 800 billion, the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) project is one of the biggest ongoing infrastructure projects in the country. […]
