Rlys step up bio-diesel plan, call tenders for setting up plants

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New Delhi,Oct 15: that they are not vulnerable to market volatility.”

However, the railways participation in the micro management of the projects like choice of project site is a critical issue as in that case it will be spending time which could have been spent on the core activities, he added.

On procurement of raw materials, he said this is a scenario where marketing the product is not difficult and those planning to enter into the business must be having a plan to procure the raw materials.

In fact, the bid document has given some relaxation to the participants on the raw material front. In case a participant feels that availability of raw-material is a constraint, it can offer to set up a plant of lesser capacity, which can be expanded in future on mutual agreement basis, bearing the cost of expansion on its own. Also, the companies will be free to sell in the open market the by products produced by this plant.

This is precisely the reason why railways, which consumes around two million kilo litres of diesel every year, plans to blend bio-diesel starting from five per cent and gradually increasing up to 20%.