The Union Government has been refusing to carry on the promise made in 2014 under the AP Reorganisation Act for a coach plant at Kazipet.
Hyderabad: The Union Government said that a Periodic Wagon Overhauling Workshop (POH) was being proposed at the same area in the State, sticking to its position that it was not viable to establish a coach factory in Kazipet.
The foundation for the POH workshop at Kazipet would be laid shortly, according to Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. He allegedly told reporters in New Delhi on Friday that there wasn’t much of a distinction between a Wagon manufacturer and POH. The POH workshop in Kazipet has been given a budget of Rs. 160 crore.
The Union Government has been refusing to fulfil the commitment made in 2014 under the AP Reorganisation Act for a coach factory in Kazipet, claiming that the current capacity and projected expansion of capabilities in existing factories were adequate to satisfy railroad requirements in the near future. A waggon factory could not be established since there were already so many in the nation. On the contrary, he asserted that there was a demand for POH workshops.
However, the union government established a coach plant in Latur in Maharashtra in 2018, defying the minister’s claims that there were sufficient waggon manufactures. Even though it was first proposed in April 2018, the Railway Board approved it in August of that same year.
Similar to this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the cornerstone in April 2022 for the conversion of the Gujarati railway workshop at Dahod into a facility for the manufacture of locomotives. It is the first locomotive production facility for Indian Railways, and it cost about Rs 20,000 crore to convert the Dahod workshop into a manufacturing facility.
“This budget allotted Telangana $4,418 billion, and the State has a number of projects in the works. According to Ashwini Vaishnaw, 39 Telangana railway stations would be upgraded to international standards. He stated there was a focus on providing adequate transportation infrastructure, and under this programme, railroad underpasses and bridges were being developed.
