Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to dedicate to the nation Gujarat’s first locomotive manufacturing unit of Indian Railways. Today, PM Modi will lay the muse stone of the Dahod workshop to the manufacturing unit for the manufacturing of 9000 HP locomotives. These locos are outfitted with Digital Tracking System (Kavach), which is an Automatic Train Protection System. These locos are to be manufactured with using inexperienced power and to have inexperienced manufacturing tag. With these locos, there might be a discount within the logistic value and decongestion of the saturated tracks by enhancing the common pace and loading capability of freight trains. The 9000 HP locomotive is succesful to haul a load of 4500 tonne cargo load. Following are some salient options and advantages of this locomotive manufacturing unit:
- This could be Gujarat’s first and India’s fourth Indian Railways manufacturing unit to fabricate locomotives
- This upgraded unit will manufacture 1200 locomotives of 9000 Horse Power having a pace potential of 120 km per hour
- This locomotive manufacturing unit will additional Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient of selling self-reliance in railway manufacturing and expertise upgradation of the Indian Railways
- With this locomotive manufacturing unit, the financial system of Gujarat is anticipated to get a significant increase by creation of alternatives for organising of ancillary industrial models
- It will generate 3500 direct jobs in addition to 7000 oblique jobs with industrial progress within the state of Gujarat
- There might be upgradation of technical expertise of 1500 Indian Railways workers by coaching and supervision by a technological associate
- In this manufacturing unit, customary gauge locomotives are to be manufactured for the worldwide market and broad gauge locomotives for Indian Railways
- The manufacturing of locos might be finished below the supervision of expertise associate as a part of the Modi authorities’s ‘ Make in india’ initiative
- The first locomotive is anticipated to end up from the manufacturing facility within the first quarter of 2024
Source: www.financialexpress.com”