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Book's First Pagend str and n rastr t re 9.31 Development Scheme) – a centrally sponsored IR is installing solar panels on rooftops scheme (CSS) with a Central grant between 60 of coaches for the train lighting system. to 85 per cent. Its core aim is to attain 24x7 Solar plants of 50 MW to come up on the power supply in the country – to be achieved rooftops of IR buildings. by strengthening sub-transmission network, Diamond Quadrilateral network of High metering, IT application, Customer Care Speed Rail connecting major metros Services, provisioning of solar panels, reduction (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai) in the AT&C of the state DISCOMs. This to come up. scheme subsumed the existing scheme, R-APDRP High Speed Train Project: The feasibility report (Restructured Accelerated Power Development of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and Reforms Programme) of 2008. (JICA) was approved by the GoI in December 2015. A new special purpose vehicle with 50 raIlways per cent equity participation from the Ministry Indian Railways (IR) is faced with a number of Railways and 50 per cent from the state of challenges. For speedy capacity creation, IR governments of Maharashtra and Gujarat will be recognizes the importance of enhancing project set up to implement the project. Major features execution capabilities. Considering the enormity of the project are as given below: of the resources required for plan investment in Project completion cost is approximately rail infrastructure, and given the limitation of Rs. 97,636 crore (including price public resources, efforts are on by IR to generate escalation, interest during construction sufficient internal surplus, and tap innovative and import duties) – average per km cost methods of financing, to meet these needs. of construction works out to be Rs. 140 The focus is on prioritising investments in crore. To be completed in 7 years. important areas like dedicated freight corridors, Japan’s ODA (official development high speed rail, high capacity rolling stock, assistance) will be Rs. 79, 165 crore (81 last mile rail linkages and port connectivity, per cent of project cost) for 50 years and attracting private and FDI investments to with 0.1 per cent interest and a 15-year supplement available resources. Major initiatives moratorium. taken by the GoI are as given below: Total length of the proposed corridor will Various measures to improve passenger be 508 km between the Bandra Kurla amenities, infrastructure and services, and complex in Mumbai and Sabarmati/ initiatives under Make in India, freight Ahmedabad in Gujarat – to cover 12 initiative, resource mobilisation initiative stations with a maximum design speed of and green initiatives, etc. High-speed 350 kmph (with a 320 kmph operating communication network put in place speed). with the help of 48,818 route kilometres. Sixty-four per cent of the corridor will Integral Coach Factory, Chennai, has be constructed on embankment, 25 per developed a first-of-its-kind stainless cent via duct and 6 per cent tunnel, with steel three-phase energy-efficient AC-AC a standard gauge. transmission 1600 HP DEMU train set. To have 10-car trains (750 seats) in the Mobile application for freight operations beginning and 16-car trains (1200 seats) – Parichaalan – has been introduced. in the future. Thirty-five trains per day