DIMAPUR, JULY 19 (MExN): The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) Carriage & Wagon Workshop, New Bongaigaon received the GreenCo Silver rating by CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre, India in July.
New Bongaigaon Workshop is the first workshop in NF Railway to achieve the GreenCo Silver rating. The workshop achieved Silver rating by completing its various green rating o¬n-site works, a press release issued by Chief Public Relations Office, Sabyasachi De informed.
GreenCo is a rating system which is an initiative of the Confederation of Indian Industry to facilitate Indian industries to substantially improve their environmental friendly performance thereby saving both natural and financial resources.
NF Railway’s Carriage & Wagon Workshop, New Bongaigaon under the guidance of Chief Workshop Manager Partha Pratim Roy has done tremendous work towards environment protection and has received Greenco Silver rating with combined team efforts of all the officials, the press release informed.
The workshop used energy efficient equipment’s, green infrastructure for the maintenance of rolling stocks. It has also reduced Green house gases emission to a good extent in the last few years. It has taken various steps for water conservation and waste management. As a result, overall specific water consumption has been reduced substantially during the last few years, the press release added.
