London ; International GBC conduct the green rating of railway station as per IGBC-DCS green Workshop station rating standard followed in USA, UK, Europe, Japan, Russia, Australia and around 150 Countries of the world.
ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIV WORKSHOP, BHUSAWAL is audited by Six Sigma Quality International http://www.ssqi.in http://www.ssqi.uk in 2018-19 and based on IGBC-DCS Green Workshop Co Rating criteria, it is awarded as Gold Rating to Central Railway https://nwr.indianrailways.gov.in/ by International Green Building Council https//www.internationalgbc.org rating agencies of deming Rating http://www.demingworld.com
International Green Building Council (IGBC) has awarded ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIV WORKSHOP, BHUSAWAL with Gold Rating after it was declared a ‘green Workshop ’. The station scored 550 points out of 850 for its environment-friendly initiatives.
There are number of new initiatives are taken by Indian railway in last 5 years. Green rating is also one of the unique initiatives taken by Indian railway recently.
2018-19 awarded rating is Gold Rating
More than 50 years old and one of the busiest railway Workshop of the country, it achieved the Gold rating almost two years after getting its name is ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIV WORKSHOP, BHUSAWAL.
Talking to International GBC spokesperson on Monday, the GM, Central Railway, CWM said, “We secured maximum points in the category of Energy Efficiency (90) or Renewable Energy (75) Greenhouse Gas Emissions80 Waste Management(81) Material Conservation, Recycling and Recyclability 56 Green Supply Chain 69 Others (Innovation) 90 This certification was possible due to the continuous efforts of all departments to improve and upgrade this station.
CWM said that encouraged by this achievement, fresh efforts have been intensified to ensure improvement in all categories in order to secure the Platinum rating next year.
The officials said that International green building council -IGBC, with the support of environment directorate of British railway http://www.rail.co.uk/ Rail transportation in the United States https://www.transportation.gov/railroads, German Railway https://www.bahn.com/i/view/index.shtml, bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan, SNCF Réseau. France currently operates the second-largest European railway network https://www.railway-technology.com/projects/frenchtgv/ as well as Indian railways https://indianrailways.gov.in/ best practices has developed this rating system, which is a voluntary and consensus-based programme. It is a first of its kind holistic rating system in India to address environmental sustainability of Indian railway Workshop , they said.
“The overarching objective of the rating is to facilitate adoption of green concepts, thereby reducing the adverse environmental impact of station operation and maintenance, and enhancing the overall commuter experience,” added the officials. The rating system helps the Workshop management to gauge the ‘green performance’ of the Workshop and assess requirements for continuous improvement. The rating system is designed primarily for existing Indian railway workshop , said the officials. “Many steps including training Workshop operation and maintenance personnel on ‘Green Railway Workshop ’, performance improvement and detailed study on opportunities for reducing energy and water consumption, increasing renewable energy, effective waste management, enhancing passenger amenities, guidance on implementation of green measures and facilitation of assessment by third party independent experts, are taken into account for the rating process.
Electric Loco Workshop, Bhusawal is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at Bhusawal of the Central Railway in Maharashtra, India. It is one of the three electric locomotive sheds of the Central Railway, the others being at Kalyan (KYN) and Ajni. As of 1 August 2020 there are 203 locomotives in the shed
Steam locomotive sheds used to exist at Bhusawal (Bhusawal) until the late 1960s. Bhusawal used to be the largest steam shed (after WWII). After Central Railway set a deadline to eliminate all steam locomotive operations by 1990, a push was given towards establishing electric locomotion as the primary motive power, and the Steam locomotive sheds was decommissione To meet the needs of exponentially increasing rail traffic on the new continuous broad gauge lines from Delhi to rest of India with the completion of gauge conversion, the Bhusawal was selected by Indian railways for a new electric locomotive shed.
The shed was originally built to handle locos for the freight traffic on the busy New Delhi – Bombay route. It started receiving WAG-2 from Asansol and WAP-1 locos.In Nov 2007 the WAP-1 locos were eventually transferred to Ghaziabad. It later got a large fleet of WAG-5 locos, Jhansi’s entire fleet of WAP-4’s locos in 2005 and WAG-7 in 2006. The shed also held a few WAM-4 units. All the WAM-4s of this shed have been retired/withdrawn from service. The WAG-7 units were later moved to other shed.
Being one of the three electric loco Workshop in the Central Railway,
