Hyderabad is one of the first cities in India to adopt a public-private partnership model for its metro network, which is claimed to be the world's largest metro PPP.
Ten years after its first line opened, Delhi continues to set an impressive pace with the expansion of its metro network. Keith Barrow looks at how Phase 3 will bring much more of the city within reach of the metro during the next three years.
Construction will step up this month on the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor as India finally presses ahead with its ambitious plans to develop separate freight infrastructure on its busiest rail routes.
"AUSTERITY and economy in expenditure" with "no wastage permitted" was the remedy prescribed by India's minister for railways Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal for Indian Railways (IR) at today's 2013-14 budget announcement to parliament after he revealed that IR will record a loss of Rs 246bn ($US 4.53bn) in the financial year which ends on March 31.
TITAGARH Wagons and FreightCar America announced on February 22 that they have agreed to dissolve their Indian joint-venture company Titagarh FreightCar Private Limited, which was formed in 2008 with the aim of manufacturing and selling aluminium-bodied coal wagons in India.
DEDICATED Freight Corridor Corporation of India (DFCCIL) has awarded a contract worth around Rs 33bn ($US 619m) to design and build the 343km Khurja – Kanpur section of the 1839km Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC).
After a slow start, high-speed rail in India began to make the headlines last year as firm proposals for the first lines started to form. While a political head of steam is building up, Raghav Thakur questions whether the money is available to fund high-speed rail projects.
LARSEN & Toubro, the Indian contractor responsible for construction of the initial phase of the Hyderabad metro has awarded Thales a contract worth around Rs 7.4bn ($US 134.3m) to provide CBTC and integrated communications and supervision systems on all three lines.
INDIA's Research, Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) in collaboration with HBL Power Systems, India, has carried out field trials using a new domestically-developed train protection system.
INDIAN Railways (IR) has formulated a new public private partnership (PPP) policy that will allow international suppliers to form joint ventures with existing production units and workshops.
