{"id":309594,"date":"2019-02-19T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309594"},"modified":"2019-02-20T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T09:42:23","slug":"pm-modi-flags-off-first-ever-diesel-to-electric-converted-locomotive-in-varanasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-flags-off-first-ever-diesel-to-electric-converted-locomotive-in-varanasi\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi flags off first ever Diesel to Electric Converted Locomotive in Varanasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-flags-off-first-ever-diesel-to-electric-converted-locomotive-in-varanasi\/modi-locomotive\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-309604\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309604 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/modi-locomotive-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/modi-locomotive-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/modi-locomotive-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/modi-locomotive-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/modi-locomotive-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/modi-locomotive.jpg 888w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off the first ever Diesel to Electric Converted Locomotive at Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In line with the Indian Railways&#8217; Mission of 100 per cent electrification, Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi has developed a new prototype Electric Locomotive converted from Diesel Locomotive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">After its mandatory trials, Prime Minister Modi inspected the locomotive and flagged it off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Indian Railways has decided to convert all Diesel Locomotive to Electric Locomotive during its mid-life rehabilitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The project is a step towards saving traction energy cost and also cut down on carbon emissions. Diesel Locomotive Works took just 69 days to convert two WDG3A Diesel Locos into a Twin Electric WAGC3 locomotive of 10,000 HP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">A complete \u2018Make in India\u2019 initiative, the conversion is an Indian R&amp;D innovation in the entire world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off the first ever Diesel to Electric Converted Locomotive at Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi. In line with the Indian Railways&#8217; Mission of 100 per cent electrification, Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi has developed a new prototype Electric Locomotive converted from Diesel Locomotive. After its mandatory trials, Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309606,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309594\/revisions\/309606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}