Member Electrical, Railway Board Shri Navin Tandon, briefed
about following initiatives and action plans of Electrical, Signalling &
Telecom Directorates of Ministry of Railways during a press conference held on
3rd June, 2015.
v Railway
Electrification: With a view to
reduce its energy procurement cost as well as to make the Railway System more
eco-friendly and to modernize the system, Indian Railways have been
progressively electrifying its rail routes.
· Highest
ever 1375 Route Kilometres (RKM) electrified in 2014-15. Thus, 26269 RKM of Indian
Railway tracks (39.92%) are now electrified. 65.40% of freight traffic and
51.20% of passenger traffic is hauled on electric traction with merely 36.32%
of total traction fuel cost.
· 28
nos. new Railway Electrification projects covering 6608 (RKM) with total
estimated cost of Rs. 6746.45 crore sanctioned in this year budget.
· Target
for current year (2015-16) of XII Plan is 1670 RKM with fund allotment of Rs.
2163 Cr including Rs 560 Cr through Extra Budgetary Resources i.e PPP and
Institutional Financing.
· 1500
V DC to 25kV AC Traction conversion in Mumbai: Kurla – CSTM section completed
and test charged in December’2014 and is expected to be commissioned on 25 kV
AC traction in 2015-16. Thus about 1190 TKM out of total 1680 TKM have been
commissioned on 25 kV AC electric traction.
v Infrastructure Projects:
· Financial
bid for Procurement cum Maintenance of 12000 HP High Capacity Locomotives and
Setting up of a Factory at Madhepura will be opened on August 31, 2015. Earlier,
four bidders namely Alstom, Bombardier, General Electric and Siemens were
shortlisted for this project. Out of 800 locomotives to be procured 795 will be
Made in India which will be mainly working in the Eastern Dedicated Freight
Corridor.
· Bids
for procurement of 200 (9000 HP) Electric Locomotives against STEP loan of
JICA/Japan are due on June 30, 2015. Out of 200 locos to be procured 40
would be imported from Japan and 60 will be assembled from CKD/SKD kits. Last
100 locos would be manufactured in CLWs Unit at Dankuni with Japanese TOT.
· Electric
Loco Assembly & Ancillary Unit of CLW at Dankuni : Work
of Factory is nearing completion. 1st loco expected to be turned out
in 2015-16.
v Rolling Stock
EMU/Metro/Convention
Passenger Coaches
· Railway is
planning to introduce a very modern train system called Train-Sets for
providing superior riding experience and about 20% saving in journey time. Procurement
process for 15 trains set has been initiated.
· Two Stainless
steel AC EMU rakes manufactured at ICF equipped with IGBT based 3-phase
propulsion system supplied by M/s Bombardier Transportation against MUTP- Phase
II have been introduced in Western Railway for Mumbai suburban. 36 more such
rakes will be manufactured at ICF during 2015-16. These have speed potential of
110 Kmph.
· Order has been
placed for procurement of 14 fully furnished rakes equipped with IGBT based 3
phase propulsion system and stain less steel car body for Kolkata Metro on M/s
Dalian/China for replacement of old rakes & additional services.
· Indian Railways
have planned to introduce one air conditioned EMU rake in Mumbai area on trial
basis.
Electric
locomotives
·
CLW Produced 250 electric locos
in 2014-15 increasing the total holding of electric locomotives to 5049 out
of which 862 locomotives are 3-Phase locomotives. CLW plans to turn out
last conventional loco in November 2015 and last GTO based 3-phase locomotive
in October 2015. Thereafter only energy efficient, environment friendly IGBT
based 3-Phase locomotives will be manufactured.
·
Trials of semi-High speed trains up to
160 km/h have been successfully conducted with WAP-5 locos between NDLS – AGC
section. Further it has been planned to manufacture WAP-5 locos of 200 km/h
within 2015.
· A
major achievement for ‘Green India’, two WAP-7 locos equipped with hotel load
system have been turned out from CLW during 2014-15 and now there are 04 such electric
locos equipped with hotel load system under trials thereby avoiding power car
working, and creating clean/green environment as well as diesel fuel saving.
v Passenger
Amenities:
· Wi-Fi internet facility has
been provided at 9 ‘A1’ category stations namely Agra Cantt., Ahmedabad,
Bengaluru, Chennai, CST Mumbai, Howrah, New Delhi, Secunderabad and Varanasi
during the year. It is being planned to provide Wi-Fi facility at many other A1
and other important stations also.
· All India Security Helpline ‘182’ and Passenger Helpline
‘138’ has been made functional as a public interface for queries/complaints
related to Security, Medical Emergency, Cleanliness, Food & Catering, Coach
Maintenance, Linen etc.
· Integrated Security System (ISS) at
6 stations and additionally CCTV system at 10 Railway stations has been
commissioned during last year. Cumulatively, ISS at 64 stations and CCTV
system at 21 stations commissioned. As a part of ‘SWACHCHH BHARAT ABHIYAAN’,
the cleanliness activities monitored through the CCTV cameras.
· 36 Escalators and 5 Lift were
installed at Railway stations in last year. Further, it has been planned to
install 100 escalators and 100 lifts in current year.
· Mobile charging facilities would be
provided in General class coaches and the number of charging facilities would
be increased in Sleeper class coaches. 3000 general and sleeper class coaches
would be provided with 18 mobile charging points during 2015-16.
v Electrical
Energy Management:
·
Initiatives and action plans to
reduce cost of power procurement through Bi-lateral arrangements and
Open Access mechanism:
- 50 MW
power in NC Railway from DVC resulted in saving of Rs. 10.57 Cr. in March 15;
annual saving of Rs 100 Cr. per year is expected
- Power
Purchase Agreement for 100 MW power signed with GUVNL on 05.3.15
- Govt.
of India has allocated 500 MW power from RPPGL at Rs 5.0 per unit.
- To
have arrangements for longer periods through market mechanism, tenders floated
to procure 50 MW in NCR, 440 MW for Western, 220 MW for Northern and 350 MW for
Eastern regions. First tender of 50 MW will be open on 8th June and
rest by July 2016.
·
As part of setting up Captive Power Plant
for Railways, the Boiler light up for first 250 MW unit at Nabinagar, being
set up in JV with NTPC, took place on 30.03.15. It is likely to be commissioned
by Dec- 15.
·
Renewal Power for Railways:
§
Solar
Power:
-
10
MW Solar already installed: 2MW at Raibarely, 1MW on roof top
at Katra, 30 KWp solar plant at Rail Bhawan , 40 KWp each on GM building at SCR, Tirupati station,
Ajmer Stn and 5 MW at various other places.
-
Order
for 2 MW issued and for another 4.5 MW in progress
-
Railway
have been asked to plan 50 MW on roof tops of Railway buildings
-
A
general coach with about 4 KW solar panels working in Northern Railway since
December 2014
§ Wind
Power:
-
10.5
MW already installed
-
Tender
of 10.5 MW in progress
-
Contract
for provision of 25 MW in Rajasthan awarded
-
Plan
to install another 130 MW
·
Energy efficiency improvement:
§
Railways
will conduct 150 Energy Audits
§
As
per the report of BEE Indian Railways save 3.3% on traction and non-traction
energy last year which amounts to a saving of about Rs.400 crores
§
Directives
have been issued to Zonal Railways on 27.03.2015 that for future use of LED
tube light fittings for new office buildings and for replacement
§
18
National Energy Conservation Awards bagged by Railways.
§
Developed
a web based software ‘Rail Saver’.
§
Improving
Energy Efficiency in Railways’ residential quarters under CDM (CFL distribution
project): As
part of this project, total 14 lakh CFLs were installed in Railway
quarters by replacing incandescent bulbs. The project has earned total 2,48,609
carbon credits (CERs) till date out of which 1,38,493 carbon credits (CERs)
were earned in 2014-15. The project received “Special Jury Prize” during
UIC Sustainability Award’ 2012.
§
Railways
have taken up key technologies as pilot projects to improve energy efficiency
on IR in consultation with UNDP –which includes SCADA control
system for New Delhi Station, Building Management System at Dadar, Pumping
control system at GZB and Kishan Ganj, LED lights in Railway coaches,
Smart sense and smart Grid system at Baroda House installed, automized
light and fan control for New Delhi station.
v Signalling:
·
To enhance efficiency and
safety in train operation, modern Electrical/Electronic interlocking system
with Central Panel, complete track circuiting and MACLS have been provided at
245 stations during 2014-15. Panel/Electronic interlocking system has been
provided at 5336 stations (85% of total interlocked stations).
·
Automatic Block Signalling is a proven low cost signaling solution for enhancing line
capacity on a double line section. During 2014-15, Automatic Block Signalling
have been provided on 208 Route KM, which is highest ever in last five years.
This includes 95 Route Km on Ghaziabad- Mughalsarai section on NC Railway.
·
For safety of Road users,
290 Nos of LC gates interlocked with Signals during 2014-15
·
Train Protection and Warning
System (TPWS) is a proven Automatic
Train Protection (ATP) System for preventing Signal Passing At Danger (SPAD)
and over speeding. During 2014-15, TPWS have been commissioned on DumDum – Kavi
Subhash section of Kolkata Metro (25 Rkm) and TPWS trials completed with 35
Locomotives in Delhi- Agra section at 130 kmph and 160 kmph. Decision has been
communicated recently to Zonal Railways to execute sanctioned TPWS works on
1244 Rkm of automatic signalling sections where EMUs ply.
·
A pilot project for
indigenous development of Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) as
a multi-vendor, interoperable cost-effective system is being carried out by
RDSO. This ATP system has capability of preventing train accidents caused due
to Signal Passing At Danger (SPAD) and
over-speeding. Field trials of TCAS
conducted on 32 RKms section (4 Stations) with five locomotives during 2014-15.
Extended trials on Lingampalli-Vikarabad-Wadi –Bidar section, SCR (250 Km) are
planned for completion by 2015-16.
·
Centralised Traffic Control
(CTC) consolidates train routing
decisions that were previously carried out by local operators. This system
optimizes the efficiency of train operations by centralized controlling of
train traffic from a centre place. During 2014-15, CTC system has been
installed at Tundla (NCR) & testing of 7 Stations completed for centralised
and more efficient control of traffic in GZB- CNB section.
·
Signalling has been made fit
for Semi- high Speed trains (160 KMPH) on Delhi-Agra section.
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