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MENAFN- KNN India) Increasing Passenger amenities and improving efficiencies is required in Railways: Union Railways Minister
New Delhi, Nov 23 (KNN) Government is focused on introducing world class technologies in every aspect of country's economy including railways said Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday while addressing the FICCI Event on 'Bullet Train & Modernization of Indian Economy.
The minister said that all the trains would be electricity driven in coming five years and by doing so the railways would save around Rs11,500 crore annually.
Speaking on technological advancement in the railways the minister said that there had not been any investment in new technologies by railways since Rajdhani in 1969, so the government had been exploring new avenues of technologies and bullet trains is one of them.
The minister also noted that the railways would stop manufacturing primitive ICF (Integral Coach Factory) coaches by June ,2018.He said that the manufacturing of Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) coaches ,having better design and efficiency had been ramped up in the Rae Bareiley factory which would replace the old ICF coaches. (KNN/AG)
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