'Modi thinks way in advance': PM says Hormuz crisis didn't affect railways
Prime Minister Narendra Modi credited the rapid electrification of Indian Railways for insulating the country's transport network from global energy crises. He argued that the shift away from diesel prevented a potential standstill during recent instability in the Middle East.
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This highlights the intersection of national infrastructure policy and energy security in the context of geopolitical instability.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the rapid electrification of Indian Railways over the past 12 years has helped the country withstand global energy disruptions, claiming the rail network would have come to a "complete standstill" during the ongoing Middle East crisis if the same situation had arisen before 2014.Addressing a gathering after flagging off India's first hydrogen train at Jind railway station in Haryana, the Prime Minister said that if the Strait of Hormuz had been closed before 2014, the Indian Railways would have come to a complete standstill."The massive changes that have taken place in the Indian Railways in the last 12 years have benefited India in another way. You are seeing that for the last several months, there has been a war going on in West Asia, in the entire Hormuz region, Iran, and the Gulf.
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