Minister
of Railways Invites Non Railways StakeHolders to the Roundtable
Discussion on Environment and Housekeeping Issues of Indian Railways
Ministry of Railways organized a Roundtable discussion
today i.e. 11.01.17 (Wednesday) inviting various non-railway
stakeholders on Environmental and Housekeeping Issues. Minister for
Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu was the Chief Guest and Minister
of State for Railways Shri Rajen Gohain was the Guest of Honour.
Chairman, Railway Board, Shri A. K. Mital, Member Rolling Stock, Railway
Board Shri Ravindra Gupta, other Railway Board Members and senior
officials were also present on the occasion at Rail Bhawan. Over 50
experts and professionals from various organizations like The Energy and
Resource Institute (TERI), Indian Green Building Council (IGBC),
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), National
Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Confederation of
Indian Industry (CII), Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SHAKTI),
Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), Indian Council of Forestry
Research and Education (ICFRE), Council for Energy Environment and Water
(CEEW), RITES, World Resources Institute (WRI), Indian Institute of
Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), De3lhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC),
Triveni, in the relevant domain participated in the discussion and
provided valuable inputs towards Indian Railways’ current programme and
initiatives in the field of Environment and Housekeeping.
Speaking at the Roundtable discussions, Minister of Railways, Shri Suresh Prabhu said that
as a modern responsive organisation we cannot afford to work in
isolation and we must tune ourselves to emerging trends in our economy
and society. Roundtable discussions with external stakeholders will help
in gaining perspectives, exchange knowledge and improving our workings.
Managing operations with sustaining environment is a challenge, he
added.
Shri Prabhu also said that Ministry of
Railways is working on mainstreaming sustainability in our strategy.
Having set up a separate Directorate for Environment, it is no more a
peripheral activity, and now integrated with and complements the core
activity. Land use optimization, afforestation, water bodies
restoration, cleanliness are just some of the activities that the
Railways are working on to ensure sustainability. Ministry of Railways
is giving a big push to use renewable energy, electrification for
ensuring sustainability and cost efficiency. He also expressed pleasure
in interacting with representatives of various organisations: Government
organisations, NGOs, think tanks, etc
Minister of State Shri Rajen Gohain said that Railway
is the most environment friendly modes of transport. We are conscious of
green issues and taking measures to go green wherever possible.
Background:
Indian Railways, the lifeline of the country, carrying
23 million passengers every day is the largest passenger carrying
system in the world. Indian Railways is also the largest consumers of
water as well as electricity. It is also considered as the “Green
Transporter” due to reduced Greenhouse Gas emissions.
In order to endorse its commitment towards environment
protection, a Round Table discussion has been held by the newly created
Environment Directorate of Railways with various stakeholders involved
in Environment and Housekeeping issues of Indian Railways. The key
programmes under the Environment & Sustainability initiatives of
Indian Railways were put forth before non-railway stakeholders
consisting of Environment bodies, Water NGOs and NGOs working in the
field of Housekeeping and cleanliness to seek valuable inputs on these
initiatives.
The key programmes under the Environment &
Sustainability initiatives of Indian Railways are Energy conservation
measures, Water Management, Automatic Coach Washing Plants, Solid Waste
Management, Green Buildings, Use of Renewable Energy Resources,
Afforestation and meeting INDC targets.
Indian Railways has taken a series of steps to improve
Station Cleanliness like Environment & Housekeeping Directorate set
up at Board for focused planning & monitoring, Advised Zonal
Railway to go for Integrated Housekeeping Contracts, Provision of
increased number of Dustbins, Streamlining of Collection & disposal
of Garbage from Trains, construction of more toilets at Railway
Stations, Enforcement of Penalties under Anti-Littering Rules 2012, Use
of CCTV for monitoring cleanliness work at Major stations and
streamlining of station/division level service improvement groups.
Indian Railways has also taken a series of steps to
improve Train Cleanliness with introduction of different apps like
“Clean my Coach” already introduced in 700 trains, On Board Housekeeping
Service extended to about 750 Mail/Express trains, Clean Train Station,
Mechanized cleaning of trains, Mechanized laundry, Integrated Pest
& Rodent Control for Trains, Depots and Stations, Proliferation of
Bio-toilets in Passenger Coaches to eliminate open discharge from Train
and making Green Sections.
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