Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurates India’s First Aluminum Freight Rake at Bhubaneswar Railway Station

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated India’s First Aluminum Freight Rake at Bhubaneswar Railway Station in Odisha yesterday. The indigenously built rake will reduce carbon footprint due to lower consumption of fuel.  A single rake can reduce 14,500 tonnes  Carbon dioxide emissions during its lifetime, said the Minister.

Union Minister MR Vaishnaw who is also the minister for Communications and Electronics & Information has said that high-speed 5G internet service will be rolled out in a few cities of Odisha by March 2023.

Speaking to media persons



in Odisha capital Bhubaneswar yesterday the Union Minister said, In the first phase of rollout, 200 cities of India will be connected with the 5G network. In this phase, all big cities of Odisha will also receive a 5G network by the end of March 2023.

By the end of 2023, under phase II, around 80 percent of the State will be covered under the high-speed internet service, the minister revealed.

He said All the big cities will be covered in phase -1 and the service will be subsequently extended to semi-urban areas and then, rural areas.