Indian Railways to run 100% on electricity by 2024: Piyush Goyal

January 27: The entire railway network in India will run 100% on electricity by 2024. This was asserted by Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. There are plans to make Indian Railways a zero-emission network by 2030.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal was speaking at the India-Brazil Business Forum in New Delhi on Monday. He said, “It will be the first railway in the entire world of this scale and size to be run on electricity. The Minister also expressed the desire to partner with Brazil in connection with running rail on clean energy.