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Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs’ (MoHUA) Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra revealed that India’s first locally-manufactured Titagarh-Firema train-set for the phase-1 of the Pune Metro project will be rolled out for testing on May 2021, Metro Rail Guy reports.
The company was handed a completion deadline of 160 weeks and they disclosed the final design of the coaches in August 2020. Titagarh Firema asserted that these will be the lightest coaches in India with an axle load of 15.5 Tonne. Durga Shankar Mishra visited Titagarh’s local plant in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal along with certain officials of the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation last weekend.