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Posted: Nov 03 2016 (22:16)
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Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has inaugurated the International Conference on Decarbonisation of Indian Railways - Mission Electrification organised by Institution of Railways Electrical...
In order to meet the increased requirement of electric locomotives resulting from accelerated electrification, it has been decided to manufacture electric locos from DLW, Varanasi also. It is planned to manufacture two locos in the current financial year followed by ten locos next year and there on.
Switch over plan of DLW from diesel loco to electric loco, give us an enough reason that we can finally see IR as a fully electrified network in years to come. (except-heritage, hill railways)