Rail Green Points for Freight Customers

Tags: Economics/Business

Indian Railways has laid down Policy guidelines recently to assign carbon saving point, termed as Rail Green Points, to freight customer. 

• It will be applicable only to the freight customers who are registered on e-Registration of Demand(e-RD) portal of Freight Operations Information System(FOIS).

• Every customer who places demand online (on e-demand module) for freight services will be given the details of the expected saving of carbon emission called Rail Green Points.  

• The green points will be credited to customer’s account on Freight Business Development portal. 

• Downloadable certificate displaying Rail Green Points will also be provided.

• The Rail Green Points can’t be claimed for any benefit from Railways. 

• Rail Green Points will be reckoned on financial year basis. 

• Corporate customers can mention the Green Points on their website, and in their Annual Reports.

• The module for Rail Green Point will be developed by Centre for Railway Information Systems/Freight Operations Information System (CRIS/FOIS). 

• The scheme is likely to be launched in April 2022.