Held a meeting with industrialists from renewable energy industry & discussed ways to generate solar power under Make in India initiative
piyush goyal – union railway minister
Also spoke about deploying solar power plants on Railway land to further our goal of making Indian Railways a Net Zero Carbon Emitter by 2030
By 2030 we will be a net-zero railway, our carbon emission will be zero.
Indian Railways transports nearly 8 billion passengers and 1.2 billion tonnes of freight every year.
Ours will be the world’s first Railways of this scale to go green.
