RITES delivers 60 modern passenger coaches to Bangla

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RITES Ltd, a Public Sector Unit under Indian Railway Ministry, traded over 60 advanced passenger coaches with Bangladesh Railways.

The Ministry of Railways, in a release, stated that the RITES delivered 60 Broad Gauge coaches (LHB category) to Bangladesh as a part of the agreement inked for 120 coaches.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, along with Harsh Vardhan Shringla, High Commissioner of India and Bangladesh’s Railway Minister Mazbul Haque, flagged off an intercity train comprising the LHB coaches at Dhaka.

Two trains, encompassing 12 coaches each, will be employed to operate between Dhaka and Rajshahi. The 12 coaches are inclusive of 2 power cars, 2 AC chair cars, 2 first AC sleeper cars and 6 non-AC chair cars.

These modern stainless steel coaches were manufactured at kapurthala by Rail Coach Factory. The release further revealed that the coaches have Fiat bogies which are capable of running at speed of 160 KMPH.

Earlier, RITES supplied 26 Broad Gauge diesel electric locomotives. The suppled locomotives 3100HP, made by Diesel Locomotive Works- Varanasi, are running broad gauge trains effectively in Bangladesh.

Rajeev Mehrotra, Chairman and MD of RITES, said that the state-run firm is putting in all efforts to expand exports of rolling stock produced by Indian Railways Production Units.

Mehrotra further revealed that the they have received a very overwhelming and encouraging response from South Asian markets.