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Monday, 13 September 2021

07:17

Hirakhand Express with modern Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) coaches flagged off

 Hirakhand Express with modern Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) coaches flagged off

Focus is on passenger safety and convenience

Posted On: 10 SEP 2021 8:06PM by PIB Delhi

Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Union Minister of Railways, Communication, Electronics & Information Technology, and Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Union Minister of Education, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, flagged off  the new modern LHB Rake of  Train No. 08445/08446 Bhubaneswar-Jagadalpur-Bhubaneswar, Hirakhand Express, today evening, through video conferencing from Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

Speaking on the occasion, Shri Vaishnaw said that, “Hon’ble Prime Minister has been stressing upon the need for bringing about reforms in Railways. The vision is to make a wholesome transformation and not just incremental changes. Our Government is pursuing these projects on an express mode. Every year about Rs. 6000 Cr. to 7000 Cr. Rupees is being sanctioned in the budget for development of rail infrastructure in Odisha. This Union Government is committed to provide better connectivity and amenities to our esteemed passengers.” Introducing new modern LHB rakes in Hirakhand Express will provide better and more pleasant journey experience to train passengers, added Shri Vaishnaw.

Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Hon’ble Union Minister of Education, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, said that special attention is being given by Union Government to this region in the field of developmental of Railway infrastructure and projects.

Hirakhand Express covers its journey of 784 kms from Bhubaneswar to Jagdalpur having stoppages at 21 intermediate stations in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh under East Coast Railway jurisdiction. LHB Coach in Hirakhand Express will provide better comfort and jerk free journey to the passengers. LHB coaches are anti-telescopic, safer, lighter, and more comfortable and jerk free. Replacement of ICF conventional coaches phase wise with LHB coaches is being done from safety point of view. Hirakhand Express will now run with a load combination of 12 coaches as earlier, i.e. 01 AC 2 Tier, 02 AC-3 Tier, 04 Sleeper Class, Three Second Class Seating and 02 Guard cum Luggage & Divyangjan Coaches.

Source:PIBNEWS

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Friday, 12 April 2019

18:23

PUDUCHERY & RAMESWARAM EXPRESS TRAINS FROM BHUBANESWAR TO HAVE MODERN LHB COACHES

PUDUCHERY & RAMESWARAM EXPRESS TRAINS FROM BHUBANESWAR TO HAVE MODERN LHB COACHES

  • BHUBANESWAR-PUDUCHERY EXPRESS WILL RUN WITH LHB COACHES FROM 16TH APRIL
  • BHUBANESWAR-RAMESWARAM EXPRESS WILL RUN WITH LHB COACHES FROM 19TH APRIL

To provide better comfort and jerk free journey to the passengers, Railways have decided to run Bhubaneswar-Puduchery-Bhubaneswar and Bhubaneswar-Rameswaram-Bhubaneswar Express with modern Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) coaches from this month. This will replace conventional coaches running at present.
12898/12897 Bhubaneswar-Puduchery-Bhubaneswar Express from Bhubaneswar w.e.f. 16th April, 2019 & from Puduchery w.e.f. 17th April, 2019 and 18496/18495 Bhubaneswar-Rameswaram-Bhubaneswar Express from Bhubaneswar w.e.f. 19th April, 2019 & from Rameswaram w.e.f. 21st April, 2019 will run with LHB coaches.
Both the trains will run with a load combination of 21 coaches i.e. One AC-2 tier, Four AC-3 tier, 11 Sleeper Class, Two Second Class Seating, Two Guard, Luggage & Seating and One Pantry Car which will increase the total capacity of berths.
LHB coaches are anti-telescopic, that means they do not flip in case of a collision, safer, lighter, more comfortable and jerk free. Replacement of ICF conventional coaches phase wise with LHB coaches is being done from safety point of view.

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Tuesday, 6 March 2018

08:15

Tambaram -Sengottai Antyodaya Rake Train Service from March 5,2018

Tambaram -Sengottai Antyodaya Rake Train Service from March 5,2018

CHENNAI: The first Antyodaya rake is to be operated as a bi-weekly daytime special train between Tambaram and Sengottai from Monday. The rake comprising 16 unreserved Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coaches will start running from Tambaram.
Compared to the conventional coaches, the interiors and exteriors of LHB coaches have been wrapped with vinyl sheets to ensure that train sports a new look. Every coach reportedly has a drinking water vending machine to ensure comfort of passengers. Besides, a fire extinguisher has also been mounted.
The Antyodaya coaches have a vestibule to enable passengers to move from one coach to the last coach of the train, a senior railway official said. Proposed in the 2016 Union Budget, the Antyodaya coaches are ideal for night travel trains, with the added facilities.
To cater to more unreserved passengers in highly congested routes, the Railways announced that two Antyodaya Express trains would be introduced from Tambaram to Tirunelveli and Sengottai.
To begin the daily service, railways required two rakes of Antyodaya coaches. The second rake of 20 coaches had been handed over to Southern Railway only a week ago.
“After completing the mandatory safety procedures, the second rake would be put to use and accordingly the bi-weekly special train will be converted as regular Antyodaya Express,” he said.
According to a press note, Tambaram-Sengottai unreserved special train will leave Tambaram at 7 am on March 5, 7, 12 and 14 and reach Sengottai at 10.30 pm the same day.
Similarly, in the return direction, Sengottai-Tambaram unreserved special train will leave Sengottai at 6 am on March 6, 8, 13 and 15 and reach Tambaram at 10.30 pm the same day.
The trains will stop at Chengalpattu, Melmaruvathur, Villupuram, Chidambaram, Mayiladuthurai, Kumbakonam, Thanjavur, Tiruchy, Pudukkottai, Karaikudi, Manamadurai, Aruppukkottai, Virudhunagar, Sivakasi, Rajapalayam, Sankarankovil and Tenkasi.
Facilities in the new rake
• Interiors and exteriors wrapped with vinyl sheets
• Vestibule running from the first to the last coach
• Drinking water vending machines inside the train
• It comprises 16 unreserved LHB coaches
• Ideal for trains that take night-long journeys
• Will help address demand for unreserved coaches

Source:RailNews
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Thursday, 15 October 2015

06:45

Railway to provide Dustbins in all 60000 Coaches soon: Prabhu

Railway to provide Dustbins in all 60000 Coaches soon: Prabhu

New Delhi: All the 60,000 coaches in Indian Railways will soon be provided with user-friendly dustbins, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Friday said. Barring air-condition (AC) and a few non-AC sleeper coaches, majority of coaches currently don’t have dustbins resulting in problems in disposing garbage by the passengers in moving trains.

“All the 60,000 coaches will be provided with dustbins and the target will be reached as soon as possible,” Prabhu said, reminding about the promise made in the Railway Budget this year, while addressing a conference on ‘rail coach interior’ here. Currently, both AC and non-AC LHB coaches are being provided with two dustbins at both ends of the bogie.

All conventional AC coaches manufactured at Integrated Coach Factory at Chennai are also equipped with dustbins. Stating that a lot of progress has been made in making passenger coaches more user-friendly, he laid emphasis on clean toilets, linen, curtains and making the seat, the ladders to climb the berths more user-friendly. Prabhu also suggested developing a model for revenue generation tapping the opportunities that a contemporary looking coach can generate.

Indian Railways carry over 2.5 crore passenger every day where travelling hour for a passenger in sleeper class coach is about 16 hours. Keeping this facts in mind, he said, the emphasis should be on “designing the entire architecture of services catering to all including the poor”. He said the National Institute of Fashion Technology and National Institute of Design are also making progress in design of the coach interiors.
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Monday, 7 September 2015

09:39

Raebareli Coach Factory to start Full-fledged Production by year end

Raebareli Coach Factory to start Full-fledged Production by year end

Rae Bareli (RBL): Raebareli rail coach factory might start full-fledged production by end of the year. After starting production in 2011, the factory has produced only 375 assembled coaches so far.  The ‘synchronization’ of machines is on at the factory which will ensure full production, said sources. The factory was set-up to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of coaches. Indian Railways need about 5,000 coaches in a year. RCF, Kapoorthala and Integral coach factory, Chennai together roll out some 2,500 coaches. 
Raebareli factory, say sources, has the capacity to produce 1,500 coaches if it is made to function in three shifts.  But so far the Lalganj factory in VIP constituency Raebareli has not come on its own. It is still dependent on RCF, Kapoorthala for 50% raw material.  In June last year, the factory was declared independent by the centre so that it could manufacture coaches independently without entirely depending on government fund. But that has not boost production. “This year it has to manufacture 500 coaches,” said sources. The factory produces only LHB coaches. LHB is a light weight coach based on German technology that can improve the speed of train and is the latest requirement of Indian Railways. 

Railways incur about Rs 2.73 crore in manufacturing a single AC 3 tier LHB coach and Rs 2.63 crore in manufacturing an AC 2 tier LHB coach. An empty shell costs around Rs 50 to 60 lakh.

Info:
Project sanctioned – November 2006
Foundation laid – February 2007
Land acquisition started – August 2007
Sanctioned cost – Rs 1685 crore
Cost escalation (due to delay) – Rs 2500 crore
Target (when announced) – rolling out 1,000 coaches per year
Land acquired – 541 hectare
Land for factory – only 167 hectare
Construction started – February 2009
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Monday, 6 July 2015

19:05

Railway Minister inaugurates new LHB Manufacturing Plant, flags-off 50000th Coach at ICF/Perambur

Railway Minister inaugurates new LHB Manufacturing Plant, flags-off 50000th Coach at ICF/Perambur

Perambur (PER): Union Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu today dedicated LHB (Linke Hofmann Busch) manufacturing unit located at Integral Coach Factory (ICF) at Perambur.

The unit has been set up at a cost of Rs 252 crore to manufacture 300 LHB stainless steel coaches.

He also flagged off  the 50,000th coach manufactured at ICF. ICF is one of the earliest production units in India. It was inaugurated by the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru in 1955.

ICF is capable of producing close to 2000 coaches per year and has produced 50,000 coaches since its inception around in 500 different designs.

The factory has turned out an outrun of 1704 coaches in 2014-15 consisting of 50 variants.


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Saturday, 4 July 2015

21:36

Railway Minister to launch ICF/Perambur’s 50,000th Coach on Monday

Railway Minister to launch ICF/Perambur’s 50,000th Coach on Monday

New Delhi: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will roll out the Indian Railways’ 50,000th coach on Monday, marking a momentous occasion for the national transporter in achieving a record performance in the coach manufacturing sector.

The 50,000th AC three-tier coach will come out of the Integrated Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai when the Railway Minister will press a remote button from the Rail Bhavan in the national Capital. Beside dedicating the 50,000th conventional coach to the nation, Prabhu will also inaugurate the upgrading facility at the ICF for production of Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coaches in Chennai, through video conference facility from here.

A premier industry, ICF was set up in 1955. Since then the factory has been manufacturing conventional coaches approximately 1,500 a year, catering to the ever-increasing demand of coaches for new trains.

IFC manufactures various types of AC and non-AC coaches including EMUs (Electrical Multiple Units) and DEMU (Diesel Electrical Multiple Units), Metro coaches for Kolkata Metro. Now the ICF will also manufacture LHB coaches, till now made at Rail Coach factory at Raebareli and Kapurthala. LHB coaches are mainly used in premier trains like Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto services.
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Thursday, 2 July 2015

07:32

Budge Budge Coach Bogie Frame Factory to supply 600 LHB Bogie Frames to Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala

Budge Budge Coach Bogie Frame Factory to supply 600 LHB Bogie Frames to Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala

Budge Budge (BGB): The bogie manufacturing factory at Budge Budge, the foundation stone for which was laid by Mamata on January 11, 2011, commenced production in March, 2015 and will supply 600 LHB bogie frames to Rail Coach Factory (RCF), Kapurthala every year as planned.

Production has also started at the DEMU factory at Haldia and the two at Dankuni supplying spares to Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi and Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW).

“The unit at Budge Budge was originally called the AC Container & Bogie Manufacturing Factory and the investment was to be Rs.59.3 Crore. Now it is known as the Coach Bogie Frame Factory and the project cost has gone up to Rs 149 crore. The factory is manufacturing FIAT bogie frames that offer superior riding quality, higher safety and have lower maintenance requirements. These bogie frames will facilitate Indian Railways’ plan to switch over from the manufacture of conventional steel coaches to LHB stainless steel ones,” a senior official said.

Indian Railways used coaches primarily manufactured by Integral Coach Factory, Perambur, till some were imported from Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) in Germany. These stainless steel coaches with more riding comfort were initially used in the Rajdhani Expresses. Later, the LHB coaches started being manufactured at RCF under licence from Alstom LHB GmbH (Alstom took over the company in 1998). The Indian Railways then took a decision to switch over from conventional coaches to LHB ones for all important mail/express trains.

The unit of CLW at Dankuni has also started production and is expected to roll out the first high horsepower electric locomotive by the end of this year.
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Monday, 29 June 2015

20:18

New EMU Rake with indigenous Electrical Systems powered by Medha Servo Drives put for trials

New EMU Rake with indigenous Electrical Systems powered by Medha Servo Drives put for trials

Mumbai: Come August and Mumbai will see the first-ever local train — EMU in railway lingo — whose electrical systems are completely indigenous. So far, all Mumbai locals with the modern Alternating Current 3-phase IGBT transmission technology have been powered either by Siemens or Bombardier.

The new rake, powered by Hyderabad-based firm Medha Servo Drives, will be a major test for the Indian Railways, according to officials, as it looks towards increasing the production of local trainsfor various metros without depending on imported technology. The new rake developed by Medha Servo Drives has been under construction for the past couple of years and is now in its final stages, said officials in the know.

A top-ranking railway official said that the rake, the first of the two being built at the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai, should in all probabilities be sent to Mumbai by August. It will be first run on Western Railway (WR). “The Mumbai suburban railway is one of the densest and most demanding railway sections anywhere in the world. If this train, with Indian-made electrical traction motors and train control mechanisms, is successful in Mumbai, then it is going to be a game-changer for the railways. It will truly be the start of the ‘Make in India’ phase in the Electrical Multiple Units (EMU) sector for the railways,” said the official.

The rake will be a completely stainless steel one, like the two Bombardier rakes currently running on WR, but will have some design changes — mostly cosmetic — from both the Siemens and Bombardier rakes, said officials.

While Mumbai’s suburban system has had Indian-made power systems, mostly by Bhopal-based BHEL in the good old days when the traction on both Central and Western Railways was 1,500 Volt Direct Current (DC), conversion to 25,000 Alternating Current (AC) meant Mumbai’s locals either had Siemens or Bombardier power mechanisms, both multi-national companies.

“When it comes to MNCs, there are problems with patents, transfer of technology and the like. It is always better to have local expertise as, apart from ease of business, it leads to huge savings in foreign exchange. The building of local trains that was well and truly local was long overdue and it is good that the railways is moving in that direction,” said another official.

ICF also produced 20 fully furnished LHB Coaches (shells from RCF). 12 of these coaches are now in service on the new Chandigarh-New Delhi Shatabdi Express. Fabrication of LHB shells has started from February 2013. For the first time, a diesel multiple unit with 3-Phase IGBT traction converter has been put into service. It is equipped with ten stainless steel body coaches – two power cars each with 1600 HP on-board engine, and 8 trailer/ vendor cars. The transmission was developed indigenously by Medha Servodrives, Hyderabad.
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Friday, 12 June 2015

07:51

GENERAL MANAGER INAUGURATES CAPACITOR BANK, AN ENERGY SAVING DEVICE FITTED WITH SANTRAGACHI-CHENNAI BI-WEEKLY AC EXPRESS

10-06-2015
kolkata

GENERAL MANAGER INAUGURATES CAPACITOR BANK, AN ENERGY SAVING DEVICE FITTED WITH SANTRAGACHI-CHENNAI BI-WEEKLY AC EXPRESS

Kolkata, 10thJan.2015 

Shri Radhey Shyam, General Manger, South Eastern Railway inaugurated Capacitor Bank fitted with LHB (Linke Hofmann Busch) coaches of Santragachi-Chennai Bi-weeklyAC Express from Santragachi yesterday evening(9th June, 2015) as a part of Railway Yatri /Upbhokta Pakhwada.General Manager also interacted with the Passengers of Santragachi-Chennai AC Express who were travelling towards Chennai.

Shri D.Kamilla, Addl.General Manager, South Eastern Railway, Shri D.K.Gayen, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Shri V.K.Aggarwal, Chief Electrical Engineer, Shri Gautam Banerjee, Divisional Railway Manager, Kharagpur and other principal head of the departments attended the programme.With the installation of this Capacitor Power Bank, South Eastern Railway has made a remarkable improvement o­n energy savings.

Based o­n expert advice from Research Design and Standards Organization (RDSO) and its specifications, South Eastern Railway has taken the work of providing capacitor Bank in each LHB(Linke Hofmann Busch) Coach as energy conservation measure and to augment passenger carrying capacity of trains.South Eastern Railway has initially planned to equip Howrah-Mumbai Duronto Express, Howrah-Pune Duronto Express and Santragachi-Chennai Bi-Weekly AC Express with Capacitor Bank. The total cost for carrying out this work is estimated to Rs.70 lakhs for 109 LHB coaches. The total work of fitting of capacitor Bank with 109 coaches will be completed before 30th September, 2015.

With implementation of this innovative idea of providing capacitor Power Bank, the existing Howrah-Mumbai Duronto, Howrah-Pune Duronto and Santragachi-Chennai AC Express will be augmented by attaching 4 extra LHB Coaches accommodating nearly 900 additional passengers in one trip.
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015

06:21

Railways mulls JVs for high-speed coaches, locos

Railways mulls JVs for high-speed coaches, locos

Railway Board is considering going for joint ventures possibly with the private sector to manufacture high-end coaches and locomotives used in long haul trains under the Make in India initiative. Currently, these are made in Railways's own factories.

Collaboration has been proposed for particularly producing specialised High Horse Power (HHP) locomotives and LHB coaches which are used in air-conditioned trains like Rajdhani and Duronto.

The thinking comes at a time when the Railways is planning to completely shift to high-speed LHB coaches from conventional ones, but failing to achieve the objective mainly because of lack of enough indigenous production capabilities.

It was recently highlighted by dna how lack of production capabilities within the country has now created a crisis of supply of wheels for LHB coaches, all of which are imported, forcing the government to request foreign suppliers like Stork International of Austria and KLW Wheelco of Switzerland to speed up shipments before the scheduled time.

While the wheels are fully imported, the coaches, based on designs of Linke Hofmann Busch of Germany, are now manufactured within the country, but only at the Rail Wheel Factory at Yelahanka in Bangalore.

Railway Board's additional member (production unit) Arvind Khare has now proposed to manufacture these coaches through the joint venture route also.

"Additional member (production unit) referred to the Make in India policy of the central government, a move that will make the country stand on its own and reduce the import dependence on other countries. He suggested joint ventures to make the policy a success in areas like LHB coaches and HHP locomotives," a document of the Railway Board dated March 31 said.

While LHB coaches are for passenger trains, the HHP locomotives are needed to move cargo as well, and would be increasingly deployed on the upcoming freight corridors. Promoting facilities to manufacture HHP locos is one such area identified by Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu in its budget speech.

And in March, the ministry allowed up to 74% foreign direct investment in the proposed HHP loco manufacturing unit at two locations in Bihar.
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Friday, 6 March 2015

17:38

Rail Coach Factory to roll out coaches with bio-toilets

Rail Coach Factory to roll out coaches with bio-toilets

Kapurthala (KXH): The Rail Coach Factory (RCF), based at Kapurthala in Punjab, has decided to fit bio-toilets in all the 1,600 coaches manufactured by it in the next financial year. RCF is a coach manufacturing unit of the Indian Railways.

In 2014-15, it has fitted 950 coaches with bio-toilets, out of the total 1,300 coaches it manufactured till date. Overall, it has fitted over 2,400 coaches with bio-toilets as on date.

Stressing on the need to work towards Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ drive, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu in his Budget speech said 17,000 more toilets would be replaced by bio-toilets, also called green toilets. A senior official in Rail Coach Factory at Kapurthala said, “From the next financial year, all the coaches, including conventional and LHB  (Linke Hoffman Busch) coaches, will be fitted with bio-toilets.”

In bio-toilets, a colony of anaerobic bacteria convert human waste mainly into water and small amount of gases (methane and CO2). The gases emit into the atmosphere and waste is discharged after chlorination onto the tracks. Human waste, thus, does not fall on the railway track.

This procedure is environment-friendly and improves the working condition for the railway track staff. According to railway officials, defacement and corrosion of railway tracks by night soil lead to loss of crores of rupees. Bio-toilets have the advantage of preventing corrosion of railway tracks, as it prevents discharge of human waste.

RCF, in association with Defence Research and Development Establishment, developed this cost-effective indigenous technology, to treat faecal waste in coaches.

The technology provides an almost maintenance free and a low cost solution to the problem of open defecation on the railway tracks.

On being asked the production of coaches in current fiscal year, he added,” We are targeting to produce 1523 coaches this year against the installed capacity of 1,500 coaches per annum. Till date we have produced 1300 coaches of different variants like Rajdhani, Shatabdi, and other mail/express trains

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Tuesday, 21 October 2014

17:03

ICF to roll out more LHB (Linke Hofmann Busch) Stainless Steel Coaches

Integral Coach Factory to roll out more Stainless Steel Coaches

Perambur (PER): All coaches that are rolled out by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) here will be made of stainless steel by 2019.

Last fiscal, 25 LHB (Linke Hofmann Busch) stainless steel coaches were made. This year, 75 coaches will be rolled out, Ashok K Agarwal, General Manager, ICF, told reporters here on Tuesday.

By 2015-16, it will be scaled up to 300 coaches and the next year, 600. While the conventional coaches have a lifespan of 25 years, stainless steel coaches would increase the lifespan by 10 years.

“We will also be introducing bi-directional swing doors for all AC coaches. The railway board has requested us to work on the design and we have submitted it,” Mr. Agarwal said. This would allow passengers to exit easily in case of emergency.

At present, doors in AC coaches open only inwards. For the existing coaches the swing doors will be retrofitted at the maintenance workshop. The process will begin in six months.

 The ICF, which was set up in 1955 with Swiss collaboration, has rolled out 48,708 coaches till September 2014. Last year, 1,622 coaches were made here, for which it received ‘Best Production Unit’ award from the Railway Ministry.

This fiscal, the Chennai unit has made 824 coaches in the first six months, a 24.5 per cent jump when compared to the corresponding period last year.

“The railway board target for this year is 1,696 coaches. We will end up making 1,710 coaches,” Mr. Agarwal said.

On why the ICF does not participate in Metro rail bids, Mr. Agarwal, said, “The railway board decides participation in such bids. In future if any client approaches us, we will take it to the board.”
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