Rae Bareilly, Kancharapara and Palakkad to get New Coach Factories

To overcome the shortage of passenger coaches, the Railways proposes to set up new Coach Factories at Rae Bareilly, Kancharapara and Palakkad. This was announced by the Minister of Railways, Kumari Mamata Banerjee while presenting the Railway Budget for the year 2010-11 in the Lok Sabha today.

The Railway Minister said that the progress on the setting up of Coach Factory at Rae Bareilly would pick up during the year and a range of activities would be initiated. She also said that the establishment of Coach Factories at Kancharapara and Palakkad is in the process. Work on the loco factories at Madhepura and Marhora is also progressing, she added. A Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) factory in joint venture/Public Private Partnership mode would be set up at Sankrail.

In addition, the Railway Minister announced that the Integral Coach Factory at Chennai would be further modernized and expanded by installing a second unit so as to equip it to manufacture a larger number of technologically upgraded coaches from its present level of about 1500 coaches per year.

Kumari Mamata Banerjee also mentioned about a request from the Government of West Bengal to set up a coach factory in Singur and said that the Railways would be willing to do so, provided the State Government handed over the requisite land to the Ministry of Railways after returning 400 acres of land to the unwilling farmers.

Source : Equity Bulls

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