Ministry of Railways today conducted a one day workshop - Mission Raftaar in New Delhi with a view to raise the average speed of freight trains and coaching trains. Speaking on the occasion, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said, this workshop is an exercise with the top management of Indian Railways to brainstorm about the increase in speed of freight and passenger trains.

He said, host of issues ranging from punctuality, rolling stock, removing bottlenecks in terms of traffic, elimination of Unmanned Level crossings were also discussed in the workshop. Mr Goyal said, Railways is enthusiastically taking up all the issues with the determination to find the solution in a time bound manner.

The Minister said, there is no shortage of coal in power plants. Mr Goyal said, that demand for coal has also witnessed an increase due to less imports. He said, in last three months, 18.7 per cent increase is witnessed in coal loading. The Minister complimented Coal India Limited for increasing supply of coal in last three months.