NATIONAL RAIL PLAN

NATIONAL RAIL PLAN

 

WHY IN NEWS?

  • Recently, Government has issued the Draft Final Report of the National Rail Plan.
  • The Plan aims at providing a long term perspective planning for augmenting the Railway Network.

OBJECTIVES

  • To create capacity ahead of demand by 2030, which in turn would cater to growth in demand right up to 2050.
  • To increase the modal share of Railways from 27% currently to 45% in freight by 2030 as part of a national commitment to reduce Carbon emission and to continue to sustain it.
  • To assess the actual demand in freight and passenger sectors, a yearlong survey was conducted over hundred representative locations by survey teams spread all over the country.
  • Forecast growth of traffic in both freight and passenger year on year up to 2030 and on a decadal basis up to 2050.
  • Formulate strategies based on both operational capacities and commercial policy initiatives to increase modal share of the Railways in freight to 45% by 2030.
  • Reduce transit time of freight substantially by increasing average speed of freight trains from present 22Kmph to 50Kmph.
  • Reduce overall cost of Rail transportation by nearly 30% and pass on the benefits to the customers.
  • As part of the National Rail Plan, Vision 2024 has been launched for accelerated implementation of certain critical projects by 2024 such as:
  • 100% electrification.
  • Multitracking of congested routes.
  • Upgradation of speed to 160 kmph on Delhi-Howrah and Delhi-Mumbai routes.
  • Upgradation of speed to 130kmph on all other Golden Quadrilateral-Golden Diagonal (GQ/GD) routes.
  • Elimination of all Level Crossings on all GQ/GD route.

e-NAM (NATIONAL AGRICULTURE MARKET)

  • More than 69 crore Farmers & 1.55 Lakh traders are registered on e-NAM platform.

e-NAM

  • E-NAM (National Agriculture Market) is an online trading platform for agriculture produce aiming to help farmers, traders, and buyers with online trading and getting a better price by smooth marketing.
  • Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) is the lead agency for implementing eNAM under the aegis of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India.

ADVANTAGES

  • For the farmers,NAM promises more options for sale. It would increase his access to markets through warehouse-based sales and thus obviate the need to transport his produce to the mandi.
  • For the local traderin the mandi / market, NAM offers the opportunity to access a larger national market for secondary trading.
  • Bulk buyers, processors, exporters etc.benefit from being able to participate directly in trading at the local mandi / market level through the NAM platform, thereby reducing their intermediation costs.

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