MoU signed between Indian Railways and CII to promote and facilitate green initiatives!
MOUs and Agreement
The MoU was signed and exchanged on 4th January, 2024 between Shailendra Singh, Principal Executive Director/ME (EnHM & Project), Seema Arora, Deputy Director General, CII in the presence of other senior officers. Indian Railways, as a major stakeholder of transportation sector in India shared the responsibility of environment protection. IR itself has set “Net Zero Carbon Emission” target by the year 2030. Indian Railways have significant number of Railway stations, Production units, major workshops and other establishments, for which various green initiatives have been taken with the objective of environment protection and reducing the carbon footprints.
CII has been actively partnering with IR since July 2016 to promote and facilitate green initiatives over Indian Railways. First MoU was signed in year 2016 for 03 years and upon its expiry another MoU was signed in year 2019 for further 03 years.
This initiative resulted in energy savings of 210 lakh kWh, and monetary savings of Rs. 16 crores and resulted in significant GHG emissions reduction of around 18000 tons of CO2.
This initiative has been implemented in 75 Railways units (workshops & manufacturing facilities) and has improved their environmental performance substantially.
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