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    Indian Railways and Coal: An Unsustainable Interdependency

    Kamboj, Puneet; Tongia, Rahul | July 2018
    Abstract
    The majority of India’s coal reserves are concentrated in the eastern parts of India, while consumption of coal is scattered all across the country. Because of this uneven geographical distribution in coal supply and demand, transportation of coal plays an important role in the ecosystem. In FY 2017, the total raw coal supplied3 in India was 842 million tonnes (MT) (Ministry of Coal, 2017), of which 533 MT (Railway Board, 2018) was transported through railways. The volume of coal carried by Indian Railways (IR) was 48 per cent of its total freight in tonnes, and accounted for 45 per cent of its total freight revenue. Coal users and the railways would both collapse without the other. More than volumes and financials, the relationship between coal and railways runs deep at an institutional level. A senior railways officer is deputed to Coal India Limited (CIL) for coordination, and CIL members work closely with the traffic division of railways. The process is relatively plan-oriented and schedules for traffic are projected a year ahead or even further. There are limited market-oriented mechanisms for allocation of transportation capacity – all end-users can ask for railways haulage as available. Any short-term shock to the system like heavy regional rains, low hydropower output, or diminished RE output during the windy season can cause an imbalance beyond the buffer capacity of the system. More importantly, even buffers, e.g., the minimum stockpiles of coal that all power plants are expected to maintain, are often not enough.
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    Kamboj, Puneet; Tongia, Rahul. 2018. Indian Railways and Coal: An Unsustainable Interdependency. © Brookings India. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8571.
    Keywords
    Household Energy Consumption
    Industrial Energy Consumption
    Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
    Evaluation Techniques
    Evaluation Studies
    Evaluation Methods
    Commercial Energy
    Transport
    Transportation
    Demand For Transport
    Road & Highway Transport
    Road Transportation Systems
    Transport Infrastructure
    Railways
    Railroads
    Domestic Energy
    Energy Demand
    Energy Prices
    Energy Pricing Policy
    Energy Supply
    Primary Energy Supply
    Development Indicators
    Social Participation
    Low Income Groups
    Income Generation
    Newly Industrializing Countries
    Land transport
    Transport economics
    Railways
    Power resource
    Electric power
    Energy development
    Renewable energy resource
    Energy assistance
    Energy tax credit
    Electric power consumption
    Cost effectiveness
    Supply and demand
    Prices
    Energy resource
    Energy consumption
    Price Indexes
    Infrastructure
    Railroads
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