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Posted: Apr 16 2019 (18:41)
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Last Response: Jan 02 2020 (19:33)
15 Responses
Last Response: Jan 02 2020 (19:33)
**Pic Courtesy: The Metro Rail Guy. A model chinese rake has been shown. Actual rakes may look different from the model shown.
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Actually what you have said what people would counter is true... The rakes which are made in India are not upto the standards, and also are facing many technical problems. An ICF rake recently caught fire in Kolkata metro prompting investigations... Hopefully he ICF engineers would find the technical problems and get the rakes better. Furthermore the rakes coming from China are quite cheap compared to the ones from Europe or even from India. These metro services are independently managed after construction, hence the actual and maintenance charges also come into play to keep the ticket prices down, both of which are advantageous to the CRRC Rolling stocks. We should encourage Indian products, but unfortunately none of the independent entities would buy them if they have better products available in market. Kolkata metro bought the ICF rakes because during the time of purchase it was a part of IR. Now after...
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Though we have relatively lesser number of votes, the trend is adequate to declare the result since 94% members have voted against. My only question to those who have voted against- do you have objection only against importing rakes from China or you have objection in importing these rakes from foreign countries overall?
**Have tagged few members with whom I regularly interact. But others are also cordially invited to share their view. Thanks!
**Have tagged few members with whom I regularly interact. But others are also cordially invited to share their view. Thanks!
I missed your post earlier and today only saw it. Yes, you are correct on one part, ICF rakes are not good enough. As we all know recently a person died at Kolkata Metro because the rake door didn't shut properly.