Rail Neer Plants & Distribution

There was a news that Railways is coming up with 9 new plants in addition to its existing 10 plants in the country. This decision was taken mainly to meet the demand across railway stations. At present IRCTC meets just 45-50% demand. By adding these, it plans to meet the additional demand.

These Plants are existing :-

1. Nagloi (Delhi) : North Zone
2. Danapur (Patna, Bihar) : East Zone
3. Palur (Chennai, TN) : South Zone
4. Ambernath (Mumbai, Maharashtra) : West Zone
5. Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) : North Zone
6. Parasalla (Thiruvantanapuram, Kerala) : South Zone
7. Bilaspur (Chhattisgad) : Central Zone
8. Hapur (UP) : North Zone
9. Sanand (Ahmedabad, Gujarat) : West Zone
10. Mandideep (Bhopal, M.P.) : Central Zone

The New Locations Coming Up :-

1. Nagpur (Maharashtra) : Central Zone
2. Sankrail (Horah, W.B.) : East Zone
3. Jagi Road (Guwahati) : North-East Zone
4. Jabalpur ( M.P.) : Central Zone
5. Bhusawal (Maharashtra) : West Zone
6. Una (H.P.) : Extreme North
7. Vijaywada : (A.P.) South Zone
8. Visakhapatnam : (A.P.) South Zone
9. Bhubaneshwar : (Odisha) East Zone

Points of note :-

The Location of the plants must have been selected strategically. Particullarly the area it caters to. For example : 

• Amethi is in North Zone, but it also caters to the eastern part of the country.
• Nagpur is in Maharashtra, West Zone State, but location is in the centre of the country
• North East also they are coming up with plant at Guwahati
• States like Karnatak doesn't have any plant. The reason can be the thickest populated is Bengaluru can be sourced with the Chennai & Thiruvanantapuram plants (?) 
• Hyderabad is such a major junction, misses a plant in Telangana. Are the new locations at Vijaywada & Vizag are going to source it ? Or the Nagpur one ?
• Gujarat, Rajasthan... what about these areas ?
• Even in north east, there should be at least 2 additional locations.

Out of Box ...

• Can the plants be just at locations where there is no challenge of water ? And why not store (the railways can definitely afford it) the over flowing rainwater from regions like Kerala, North-East, Himalayas & the Sahyadris ? As it is, IRCTC enjoys the advantage of free transportation (their trains as it is run across). This will save tremendous amount of Groundwater being extracted
• The IRCTC ATM's will be supplied with this water. This will not only save Groundwater extraction but also save earth from plastic

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