Kolkata: In a major achievement, Indian Railways, with its continuous emphasis on energy efficient technologies and energy conservation measures, has bagged 17 most coveted and prestigious National energy conservation awards 2018 instituted by the Government of India. This is the highest number of awards bagged by a single organisation.
It is a big sweep in ECE 2018 awards as Indian Railways bagged 30% of the total awards. Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal has congratulated the officials for this singular achievement and called upon to continue striving for more energy efficiency and conservation measures in the railways
Indian Railways participated in three categories namely railway stations, hospitals and institutions out of the five major categories in which awards are given covering different sub-sectors.
Under 'transport' category, Indian Railways obtained 10 awards for sub-sector railway station.
Under 'building' category, Indian Railways got three awards for sub-sector Railway hospitals. Under 'institution' category, Indian Railways bagged 4 awards for sub-sector state PWD, CPWD and PHED
The 10 awards for railway stations sub-sector include Vidisha railway station in Madhya Pradesh which won the first prize, Jamnagar Station in Gujarat baaged the second prize and 7 certificates of merit were given to Dwarka, Rajkot, Surendranagar, Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Guwahati, Jaipur and Kazipet.
Three awards for Railway Hospital sub-sector include Railway hospitals of Izzatnagar division that won the first prize, Railway Hospital of Rajkot division got the second prize and a certificate of merit was given to Railway Hospital of Ratlam division.
These awards are given by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) of ministry of power Government of India to various Institutions for adopting Energy Efficiency measures for reducing energy consumption and the cost.