(CRRC Metro Coach Plant Design | Photo CRRC India)
Sri City, India (Urban Transport News): CRRC India, a subsidiary of the Chinese rolling stock and components manufacturer CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Co., Ltd., has commenced construction of its new facility centre to manufacture coaches for metro rail projects in India.
On March 3, 2021, CRRC India has organised a ground-breaking ceremony followed by Bhoomi Poojan in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) Vice Chairman and Managing Director K Raveen Kumar Reddy performed the ‘Bhoomi Pooja’, in the presence of CRRC director (operations) Harsh Bajpayee and Sri City founder & Managing Directo Ravindra Sannareddy and Chennai Metro Rail Corporation (CMRCL)'s Additional General Manager (Roling Stock) Satheesh Prabhu.
With Alstom and CRRC in its kitty, Andhra Pradesh would be supplying around 80% of the requirements of metro projects across the country, Raveen Kumar said, while appreciating Sri City for its quick as well as sustainable growth.
“With an investor-friendly industrial policy, the state is developing multi-sector or sector-specific industrial clusters in different districts covered under Vizag-Chennai, Bengaluru-Chennai and Hyderabad-Bengaluru industrial corridors and APIIC is equipping them with infrastructure on the model of Sri City”, he explained, indicating that business delegations from Taiwan, China, Japan and Korea had already visited some of the clusters and evinced interest to invest.