Five months into the new financial year, Indian Railways is on track to achieve the production target for coaches, wheels, locomotives for the year 2022-23, a senior railway official said on Tuesday.
“All Indian Railway production units are supplying to meet the growing requirement of rolling stock for Indian Railways and are on fast-track to achieve their production targets in 2022-23 despite some supply chain constraints,” the official said. are on.”
As per the data shared by the official, for 2022-23, against the set target of 5,896 LHB or Linke Hoffmann Busch coaches, the Railways has achieved the production of 1,887 such coaches in the first five months. [April-August] of current year. The production of LHB coaches in 2021-22 stood at 6,291 units, which is an increase of 45% year-on-year as compared to the production of 4,323 coaches in 2020-21.
Similarly, the target for the current financial year for production of locomotives is 1,190 locomotives, out of which 371 locomotives have been produced till August. In the previous year, Railway Workshops produced 969 locomotives as against 721 locomotives in 2020-21, an increase of about 34%.
“Rail Wheel Plant Belapur and Rail Wheel Factory Yelahanka are wheel and wheel manufacturing units. Both have collectively produced 92,118 wheels so far this financial year, which is 6.5 times the number of wheels produced during the same period last year. Similarly, the production of rail axles has also increased by 7% during the same period,” the official said.
Major railway production units include Integral Coach Factory (ICF) at Chennai, Rail Coach Factory (RCF) at Kapurthala, Modern Coach Factory (MCF) at Rae Bareli, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) at Chittaranjan, Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) in Varanasi. Huh. Patiala Locomotive Works (PLW) at Patiala, Rail Wheel Factory (RWF) at Bengaluru and Rail Wheel Plant at Bela.