PM Modi to announce India’s first hydrogen-powered train in Haryana

India’s first hydrogen-powered train, NaMo Green Rail, ready to run from Haryana on the Jind-Sonipat route on Wednesday in Haryana. | Photo credit: ANI

Pushing for sustainable transport, modern healthcare and advanced connectivity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to visit Haryana, Chandigarh and Punjab on Friday (July 17, 2026) for a day-long tour where he will unveil initiatives worth over ₹25,000 crore. The highlight of the inter-state visit will be the unveiling of India’s first ever hydrogen-powered fuel cell train at Jind, Haryana.

Designed and integrated in-house, this 10-coach train is among the longest and most powerful hydrogen passenger trainsets in the world, powered by a 3,200 horsepower (HP) propulsion system.

Unlike traditional trains, it produces its own electricity on board through a chemical reaction between hydrogen and atmospheric oxygen, leaving water vapor behind.

New expressways

In addition, the Prime Minister will go to the Eklavya Stadium in Jind to lay the foundation stones and dedicate ₹12,470 crore worth of national highway projects, including the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway, a 157.92-km four-lane, controlled-access greenfield stretch built at a cost of ₹9.60 crore to travel from Delhi to Katra in 14.60 hours six hours and Jind-Gohana Greenfield Highway (NH-352A), which will reduce the travel time from two hours to just 40 minutes.

Mr. Modi will also lay the foundation stone for a state-of-the-art Sikh museum at Kurukshetra celebrating the legacy of the Sikh Gurus, along with new medical colleges in Bhiwani and Narnaul that will be dedicated to the nation.

In the afternoon, the Prime Minister will arrive in Chandigarh to launch and commission health and road infrastructure projects worth ₹4,700 crore.

Tertiary health centers

The infrastructure includes PGIMER Chandigarh’s Advanced Mother and Child Centre, a 300-bed tertiary care facility tailored for high-risk pregnancies and intensive neonatal care, along with an advanced neuroscience centre, which will be an integrated center offering neurology, neurosurgery and neurocritical care diagnostics under one roof. PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone of the PM-ABHIM Critical Care Block, a 150-bed emergency and back-up facility.

Mr Modi will inaugurate the six-lane greenfield expressway from IT City to Kurali (Mohali) to streamline inter-state transit between Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

Concluding his Jalandhar tour, the Prime Minister will dedicate rail and road infrastructure projects totaling over ₹5,470 crore. The Prime Minister will inaugurate 75 completely rebuilt modern railway stations in 20 states, including the Jalandhar Cantonment, implemented at a cost of ₹ 1,570 crore and the new Daulatpur Chowk-Kartoli railway line (part of Nangal Dam-Talwara-Mukerian train services), while flagging off the new Amritamba-Amritasiar project.

Mr. Modi will also launch the 30.9 km Package-6 of the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway and lay the foundation for the South Ludhiana Bypass.

Published – 16 Jul 2026 16:35 IST