Indian Railways says its rolling stock production will be at a record high in 2022-23

7 Sep 2022 , 08:38 AM

Production unit of Indian Railways are on the fast track to achieve record production in 2022-2023. Indian Railways Production Units that include Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, Rail Coach Factory (RCF) at Kapurthala, Modern Coach Factory (MCF) at Rae Bareli, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) at Chittaranjan, Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) at Varanasi, Rail Wheel Factory (RWF) at Bengaluru, Patiala Locomotive Works (PLW) at Patiala and Rail Wheel Plant at Bela are on fast lane to achieve record production for the year, said official data by the Central Government.    

All Production Units of Railways are performing excellently as they are supplying the ever-increasing requirement of Rolling Stock for Indian Railways. 

Further, all the Production Units continue to get modernization inputs in the form of latest M&P, Sheds & facilities. Even during the period of COVID crisis, the Railway Production Units continued to contribute railway sector by producing coaches by following the prescribed COVID norms.

ICF, RCF & MCF are coach Manufacturing units which are making Vande Bharat, LHB, EMUs, MEMUs, Vistadome and other coaches. It is to the credit of ICF that the first indigenous Trainset was designed and manufactured in just 18 months and called T18. Two such trains are already running between Delhi-Varanasi and Delhi-Katra. Now trials of the newer version of Vande Bharat are going on. IR is planning to induct another 75 Vande Bharat trains by August 2023 as per the vision of the respected Prime Minister. 

Last year on 2021-22, all the production Units have achieved record production and LHB Coach Production increased by 45% and Loco production rose by 34%. This year in 22-23 still higher Production targets have been given to Production Units. Despite some supply chain constraints, all are poised to achieve the same strong figures.

“The Government plans to recapture the freight market share by Railways from 28% at present to 40% in next 10 years. For this, funds have been made available for capacity augmentation, modernization of Rolling stocks, world class stations & tracks etc.

Accordingly large number of Rolling Stocks of Modern type like Vande Bharat and 3-phase EMUs & MEMUs will be produced by the Production Units, said in the official data.

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