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Indian Railways bags 17 energy conservation awards
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 Government of India This is the highest number of awards won by a single organization
Secunderabad: 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 Government of India. This is the highest number of awards won by a single organization.
Indian Railways swept the 2018 awards with as many as 30 per cent of the total awards. Minister of Railways & Coal Piyush Goyal congratulated the officials on their achievement, and exhorted them to continue striving for more energy efficient and conservation measures in the railways. Indian Railways participated in three categories, 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 achieved 10 awards for sub sector railway station. Under 'building' category, it got three awards for sub sector Railway hospitals and under 'institution' category, it bagged four awards for sub sector state PWD, CPWD and PHED. 10 awards for railway stations sub sector include Vidisha railway station in Madhya Pradesh, which won the first prize, Jamnagar Station in Gujarat won second prize and 7 certificates of merit to Dwarka, Rajkot, Surendra Nagar, Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Guwahati, Jaipur and Kazipet.
Three awards for Railway Hospital sub sector include Railway hospitals of Izzat Nagar division, which won the first prize, Railway Hospital of Rajkot division won second prize and certificate of merit to Railway Hospital of Ratlam division. Four awards for state PWD subsector include passenger reservation system complex building of Secunderabad division, which won the first prize, Rail Soudha zone HQ office building won 2nd prize, and certificates of merit to Rail Nilayam in Secunderabad and Hyderabad Bhavan (DRM Hyderabad office) in Secunderabad. 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 cost.
