Indian Infrastructures and Capabilities
Union Urban and Housing Affairs Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra, who is also the Chairman of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, accompanied by Ajay Seth, Managing Director of BMRCL, held extensive talks in this connection with top RWF officials on Friday.The RWF presently supplies wheels and axles for all coaches manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai, which supplies the entire Indian Railways.
Even as India is consumed by its upcoming elections, the world’s biggest, the country is nearing another milestone: It’s set to overtake the UK to become the world’s fifth-largest economy. By 2030, its GDP could top $10 trillion.
“The number of Accidents Per Million Train Kilometres came down from a high figure of 2.20 in 1981-82 to an all-time low figure of 0.06 in 2018-19. This shows that the Indian Railways is poised towards zero-accident mode,” a senior official said.
“What we’re talking about is a complete ecosystem of capability – it’s building up supply chain, it’s building up engineering capacity, technical mechanical capacity. It is bringing the build, not the kit, to India,” Marc Allen, president of Boeing International and a member of the Boeing Executive Council, told PTI.
The cable suspension bridge was built using innovative engineering methods. It was constructed by the combat engineers (Sahas aur Yogyata Regiment) of the Fire and Fury Corps of the Indian Army in a record time of 40 days, ferrying almost 500 tons of equipment and construction material.
Making a new record, Piyush Goyal led-Indian Railways manufactured a total of 6037 coaches this financial year against the production of 4,470 coaches (previous record) last year. The growth in coach production this year is 35 per cent more than the last financial year.
Monday’s liftoff of PSLV-C45 carrying a DRDO payload Emisat and 28 foreign satellites will be the first such launch which spectators can witness at the space agency’s island, which is over 100km north of Chennai. The agency’s move to open its high-security launch facility for people for free is on the lines of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), which too allows people in the US to watch its space activities, including rocket launches.
The reactor weighing 1,858 tonne is manufactured for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd’s (HPCL) Visakh Refinery Modernisation Project.
Modi’s ‘Act East’ policy is bearing fruit and has been immensely praised by the people of the Northeast. Roads, bridges and airports have connected the states of the Northeast to the rest of India like never before.
Complementing environment conservation with technological innovation, the municipal solid waste supplied by the Varanasi Municipal Corporation is converted to electric power, thus ensuring scientific disposal of waste through a sustainable and environmentally friendly process.
