India plans to unveil a new ‘rail tech’ policy in the coming weeks, aiming to give a major thrust to local manufacturing of next-generation railway technology and equipment.<\/p>\n
The policy is likely to see the Railway Board provide partial funding, technical support, and access to testing facilities as the Centre continues its rail modernisation drive and cut reliance<\/a> on imports including from leading supplier China. “A new Rail Tech policy will give much needed impetus to innovation for mass transport,” a senior official told ET, adding this would encourage local companies to collaborate with research institutions.<\/p>\n The government’s latest plan tracks the Indian Railway Innovation Policy, launched in June 2022, which provided up to Rs 1.5 crore in 50:50 cost-sharing grant support for startups and smaller companies to develop functional prototypes. The policy focused on safety, efficiency, and maintenance, offering ownership to innovators, a secure sandbox for testing, and assured procurement to successful, innovative, low-cost solutions.<\/p>\n China remains the largest source of India’s railway equipment imports, particularly for bogies, wheel sets, and general mechanical components. Germany and Austria follow as critical suppliers of high-precision engineering, specifically for suspension and braking systems used in modern coaches. High-tech niches such as diesel propulsion parts and advanced signalling equipment come from the US and Japan.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … unveil a new 'rail tech<\/span>' policy in the coming … manufacturing of next-generation railway technology<\/span> and equipment. The policy is … China. "A new Rail Tech<\/span> policy will give much needed … used in modern coaches. High-tech<\/span> niches such as diesel propulsion …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/p>\n
” alt=”Policy to boost local mfg of genext railway tech and parts in offing
” src=”https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-42031747\/et-logo.jpg” class=”lazy gwt-Image” data-msid=”128394043″ data-original=”https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-128394043\/policy-to-boost-local-mfg-of-genext-railway-tech-and-parts-in-offingbr.jpg”><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
India imported railway, tramway locomotives, rolling stock, and equipment of about Rs 6,098 crore in fiscal 2024-25 According to official data, the import basket is heavily skewed in favour of locomotive parts and rolling stock instead of complete units, reflecting a dependence on imported sub-systems for domestic assembly.
Based on 2024-25 trade data and project reports, the import split is estimated at around 55% for the Indian Railways and 45% for Metro and Rapid Rail systems. Imports have a small share of the country’s total railway component requirements. The FY27 budget allocated Rs 52,108.73 crore towards the railways’ total capital expenditure on rolling stock, up from Rs 50,007.77 crore this fiscal year. The capex outlay is mainly for funding the acquisition of new locomotives, coaches-including Vande Bharat train sets-, and wagons for fleet modernisation.Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw recently said India will be entirely self-sufficient in developing the seven newly announced bullet train networks.<\/p>\n