Neeraj BaliChandigarh, July 17 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday delivered a pointed message from Jind, declaring that the ongoing tension in the Strait of Hormuz would have thrown India's railways into "serious crisis" had it occurred before 2014, when nearly 70 per cent of the network still ran on diesel.
Flagging off the country's first hydrogen train from Jind to Sonipat, he said the near-complete electrification of Indian Railways over the past 12 years had insulated the nation from exactly the kind of supply-line shocks now threatening global energy routes.
"This is not the India of before 2014. This is the new India," Modi told the gathering, adding pointedly that today's India "thinks ahead and acts on solutions well befor...