Bhubaneswar : East Coast Railway (ECoR) has transported 311 rakes of fly-ash from its jurisdiction towards different destinations of the country following Environment Guidelines. This has been done to increase Railway’s share in the transportation sector and ensure modal transit from road to rail. The Business Development Unit (BDU) of ECoR in its frequent interaction with the customers and industries explored ways to increase miscellaneous non-bulk goods traffic through rail. This is one of the steps towards strengthening Railway’s share in traditional transportation patterns and also to attract more traffic to Railways. Participants of Fly Ash transportation have jointly agreed to make concerted efforts for utilisation of fly ash to 100 percent as per the guidelines of Ministry of Environment The ECoR BDU consistently meets the representatives of Thermal Power Plants, Integrated Steel Plants, Aluminium Smelter Plants and Cement Plants for transportation of Fly ash by rail. Since September 15, 2020 till now, 311 rakes (goods train) of fly ash have already been transported towards different parts of the country. While 141 Rakes of fly ash were transported from Khurda Road Division, 138 rakes transported from Sambalpur and 32 rakes from Waltair Division till now. In the 2020-21 fiscal, ECoR had carried 91 rakes of fly ash. With a total load of 0.356MT of fly ash. Before the end of the current fiscal, i.e. from April 1 to February 16 2022, ECoR has carried 0.847MT of Fly ash in 220 rakes towards various places. This included 99 from Angul area, 91 rakes from Sambalpur area and 30 from Koraput & Visakhapatnam areas.Altogether, ECoR has loaded 1.20 MT of Fly Ash towards different destinations from its jurisdiction.
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