Achivement: East Central Railway Operating 232 Trains with Electric Engines Instead of Diesel, for Environmental Conservation, saves crores of diesel. To promote Environmental Conservation, East Central Railways has now set a target to run trains with electric engines instead of diesel engines.





As a result of the work being done at pace, Mughalsarai Division not only become the first 100% Electrified Division of East Central Railway, it also stand first in the entire Indian Railways. Since April 2018, 232 trains had been operating so far with Electric Engines. At the same time, saving diesel of Rs 153.73 crore.

For operating trains with electric locomotives will improve rail operations on the other hand it will also help in environmental conservation. In order to achieve the goal of complete 100% electrification by East Central Railway, the remaining work of electrification in different rail section is going at rapid pace. As a result of this, before April, 2018

electrification of 790 route km (1164 track km) has been completed so far, including several division of East Central Railway.





Electric locos have been started instead of diesel locos on many rail section including Kiul - Gaya, Ara - Sasaram, Muzaffarpur -Narkatiaganj - Valmikinagar Sagauli -Raxaul, Fatuha - Islampur, Daniyawan -Bihar Sharif, Koderma - Hazaribagh. Since April 2018, 232 trains started operating on these tracks. After 790 route km electrification, 85 diesel locos have been removed from operation by April 2018 to till date, saving 23 thousand 141 kiloliters of diesel as compared to the financial year 2018-19 which saves worth Rs 153.73 crore of diesel.