Green Railways by 2030
In order to reduce its carbon footprint, the entire Indian Railways network will be electrified by 2023. It will also instal 20GW of solar power by 2030
Indian railways moves 24 million passengers every day - a shade less than the population of Australia - on 13,000 trains, around 67,956 kilometres across the sub-continent. Add to that another 3.3 million tonnes of freight - 1,200 million tonnes during 2020/21 - daily, and the fuel needs are immense. As a result, the carbon footprint of the Indian Railways is mammoth. According to the railway ministry, the national transporter consumed 115.45 lakh kilo litres of high-speed diesel between 2014/15 and 2018/19. But, change is happening and that too rapidly.
E-waste: A Growing Problem
The country s e-waste generation increased 43 per cent between FY18 and FY20. The pandemic-induced consumption of electronic devices is set to add to the problem in future
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Little has changed over the years in the narrow bylanes of Seelampur in the national capital, India s largest unorganised e-waste recycling hub, as hundreds of establishments, big and small, salvage computer peripherals, laptops, mobile phones and other electronic waste in the most unscientific way. Government regulations on e-waste management have had little impact here.
If Seelampur represents how India has decided to handle one of modernity s biggest problems - e-waste - things are hardly better in other parts of the country. India is now officially the world s third-biggest e-waste generator, producing over 3.23 million metric tonnes of e-waste per year, behind the US and China. While hardly anything ends up in a landfill, the big worry is that 95 per ce
Electric vehicles sales jump 142% in three years
The upfront cost of electric vehicles is higher than the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. However, the operational cost of electric vehicles is lower than the ICE vehicles
Niti Kiran | March 16, 2021 | Updated 17:31 IST
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The demand for electric vehicles in the country has grown over two times in the last three years. The number of registered electric vehicles as per e-vahan portal jumped from 69,012 in FY18 to 167,041 in FY20, informed the Minister of State for Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Arjun Ram Meghwal in the Parliament today. This takes the total count of electric vehicles sold in the country to 3.79 lakh units in the last three years.
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The ONGC stock has seen a run-up of nearly 64% in the past four months, thanks to appreciating global crude prices and the improving economic activity after months of lockdown. The Maharatna company has also managed to cut down its borrowings by over INR7,600 crore in the last fiscal. Will this help replenish its thin cash reserves?
It is like a treasure hunt to find the black gold in its raw form. Most such treasure hunters spend their entire lives in search of it. ONGC, the country’s largest oil and gas explorer, is one of them. Every year, the Maharatna company goes looking for treasure troves buried deep in the bowels of the earth, but there is no guarantee of success. Senior officials at ONGC have also realised that there is no more “easy oil” to be discovered in the