Bombardier bags contract for 39 trains for Metro 4 in Mumbai
Canadian components manufacturing major, Bombardier has been awarded the contract to manufacture 234 coaches or 39 trains for the Metro-4 (Wadala-Thane-Kasarwadavali) and Metro-4A (Kasarwadavali-Gaimukh). The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) said that the prototype train is expected to be delivered after 84 weeks from the date of securing the contract. The 234 coaches will be produced at Bombardier's Savli and Maneja sites near Vadodara. The trains will also be designed at their engineering centre in Hyderabad. The 32.3km-long corridor will connect the city to Thane and is being built at ₹14,549 crore. The extension to this corridor is a 2.7km-long stretch till Gaimukh along the Ghodbunder Road. In November 2020, a German funding agency, KfW, had approved a loan worth ₹4,000 crore for the procuring rolling stock, implementing the integrated ticketing system and multimodal integration for the two lines. After MRSI contact with BEML, this second contract is also going to achieve the Make in India tag for its Rolling Stocks. The Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) was awarded the contract for manufacturing rakes for Metro-2A (Dahisar-DN Nagar) and Metro-7 (Dahisar E-Andheri E), under the Make-in-India initiative.
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12 March 2021
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