Exactly adhering to the PM’a Make In India vision, French conglomerate, Alstom, plans to manufacture 800 super high-power locomotives in India in the near future, Managing Director for India and South Asia, Bharat Salhotra said that the company is also planning to export rail solutions from India to Australia, Central Asia and South East Asia. Awarded a contract to manufacture 800 electric locomotives for Indian Railways, Alstom, a world leader in rail transport business, has decided to produce them in India, at a factory in Madhepura in Bihar. The factory will produce 800 locomotives of 12,000 horsepower each and the first phase of the factory should get over in September and the first locomotive will roll out from that plant in February 2018. He added that almost 85% of the supply chain for all those locomotives would be based in India and eight hundred locomotives would be made in India. The company would be importing some initial parts but would subsequently move it to the plant in Madhepura for achieving laid down targets and that local competency would be developed in India at supplier end through a partnership with France, he claimed.
