Telanganawill soon be Home to India’s second RAILWAY manufacturing unit atKazipet. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the unit on Saturday. South Central Railway (SCR) general manager Arun Kumar Jain said on Thursday the unit would manufacture 1,200 wagons in the first year. From the second year, this will be scaled up to 2,400 wagons.
While Braithwaite & Co, a Kolkata-based public-sector undertaking, is India’s first railway manufacturing unit, the one at Kazipet will be the first to be set up by the railways.
The unit is expected to be a green structure equipped with a solar power plant, sewage treatment plant, rainwater harvesting structure and natural daylighting. It will be equipped with the latest technology, including robotic painting of wagons, computerised machinery for precision cutting and modern material storage and handling units. The project is expected to generate 1,200 jobs in the initial years. The construction of the unit will be undertaken by Rail Vikas Nigam Limited and is expected to be completed by February 22, 2025