The Indian Railways has allocated 85% of its open wagons in the country to transport coal in order to cater to the high demand from states, senior officials familiar with the strategy told HT on Wednesday.
According to one of the officials, of the 131,403 open wagons owned by the railways, 113,880 have been put into service for coal transport. A coal train usually gets up to 84 wagons.
“On a daily basis, railways is loading around 28,470 wagons with coal to meet the demand from power plants,” said the official, asking not to be named.
