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A Niti Aayog report says India has potential to chop down carbon dioxide emissions by 2050
Rapidly rising freight transport in India is affected by excessive logistical prices and considerably contributes to rising carbon dioxide emissions and air air pollution. To tackle this concern, a Niti Aayog report titled ‘Fast Tracking Freight In India: A Roadmap For Clean and Cost Effective Goods Transport’, has instructed that India has the potential to cut back its logistics price by 4 per cent of GDP. Also the nation can obtain 10 giga tonnes of cumulative carbon dioxide emissions financial savings between 2020 and 2050.
Further, the report drafted by the Government’s assume tank, says that India also can scale back nitrogen oxide and particulate matter emissions by 35 per cent and 28 per cent.
The report additional outlined options for the freight sector associated to coverage, expertise, market, enterprise fashions and infrastructure growth.
Other suggestions embody growing the rail community’s capability, selling intermodal transport, enhancing warehousing and trucking practices, coverage measures and pilot tasks for clear expertise adoption, and stricter gas economic system requirements.
When efficiently deployed at scale, the proposed options might help India set up itself as a frontrunner in logistics innovation and effectivity within the Asia–Pacific area and past, it added.
“Freight transportation is a critical backbone of India’s growing economy, and now more than ever, it’s important to make this transport system more cost-effective, efficient, and cleaner. Efficient freight transport will also play an essential role in realising the benefits of existing government initiatives such as Make in India, Aatma Nirbhar Bharat, and Digital India,” mentioned Sudhendu J Sinha, Adviser (Transport and Electric Mobility), Niti Aayog.
As India’s freight exercise grows five-fold by 2050 and about 400 million residents transfer to cities, a complete system transformation might help uplift the freight sector, the report added additional.
