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Titagarh Wagons manufactured first aluminium metro train flagged off

28 Mar 2022 , 10:42 AM

Titagarh Wagons Limited manufactured the first aluminium metro train in its newly setup state of the art plant in West Bengal was flagged off. Titagarh Wagons, is the flagship company of Titagarh Group and a leading Indian player in design and manufacture of modern passenger and freight rolling stock.

The train was on Saturday flagged off by Manoj Joshi, IAS, Chairman — Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited and Secretary, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, in the esteemed presence of Brijesh Dixit, Managing Director – Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited; Jaideep, Director – Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited ,Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; Sunil Mathur, Director (Rolling Stocks, System & Operations) – Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited and several other Maha Metro officials and dignitaries.

Titagarh was awarded the prestigious order for design, manufacture and supply of 102 Metro Coaches for the Pune Metro project in 2019. The contract was signed jointly with its subsidiary- Titagarh Firema S.p.A., Italy (TFA). Titagarh will supply 3 Trains from its plant in Italy and the remaining 31 Trains from its Indian facilities.

The total contract for 34 trains is valued at an approximate cost of Rs1100 crore is scheduled for execution by the end of the financial year 2022-23, the company said in the filing.

Titagarh, owing to the acquisition of its Italian subsidiary Titagarh Firema in Italy, is equipped with the technology for metro trains and also semi-high-speed trains and has been catering to European market for several decades. The first train manufactured at Titagarh’sItalian facilities was flagged off and launched for normal operation on the March 7, 2022 by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India from the Garware Station in Pune.

Soon after bagging the order for the Pune Metro project, Titagarh swiftly built up the infrastructure in Uttarpara to cater to these ultra-modern metro coaches fitted with sophisticated features, the highest safety standards and comfort running at 90 kmph on the Pune Metro Railway network. The upgraded plant in Uttarpara, West Bengal is state of the art and fully compliant with industry 4.0 standards. As strong believers in the Government’s “Make in India” and “Atmanirbhar Bharat” policies, Titagarh also strived to indigenize several critical components such as bogie frames, interiors, and brake systems for these trains and is proud to report its success in doing the same.

At around 10.45 am, Titagarh Wagons Ltd was trading at Rs101.20 apiece up by Rs0.55 or 0.55% from its previous closing of Rs100.65 apiece on the BSE.

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