MEDHA SERVO DRIVES

​“In 2024, we will install Kavach in 2,500 km route. And from 2025 onward, we will be deploying it in 5,000 km every year till we cover our entire rail network of 68,000 km,” Vaishnaw told ET in an interview. He said large electronics and telecom eq...

Kavach—which has been deployed in 1,465 route km on South Central Railway (Telangana: 684 km, Andhra Pradesh: 66 km , Karnataka: 117 km, Maharashtra: 598 km)—is a combination of devices that prevents the loco pilot or train driver from jumping signa...

Tenders to install Kavach over 3000 kms were awarded in December last year. Progress is as per schedule with 98% Radio survey on the routes have been completed till now. According to Vaishnaw, bids to install Kavach on another 2500 kms of railway ne...

According to officials aware of the deliberations, the shareholding pattern agreed upon by RVNL is in line with an earlier agreement signed between the partners. This is significant since the public sector undertaking was seeking a much larger stake...

A consortium of Russia's TMH and India's Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) was the lowest bidder for the supply of Vande Bharat sleeper trains. The contract is for supply of train sets by 2029, and maintenance over a 15-year period.

A top executive of Russia's leading rolling stock manufacturer TMH Group told ET that the company has reached out to top Indian government officials as venture partner state-owned Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd is now pressing for a higher stake in the joint ...

A consortium of Russia's JSC Metrowagonmash and India's Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) has emerged as the lowest bidder (L1) for manufacture, supply and maintenance of 200 sleeper Vande Bharat trains. These newly-designed trains will allow movement of ...

If selected, this will be the first time that Alstom will make and supply locomotives as per the indigenously-developed Vande Bharat designs to the Indian Railways. Medha has more experience with Vande Bharat trains and had also supplied the propuls...

"The cost of manufacturing a 16-coach Vande Bharat train would be roughly Rs 110 crore to Rs 120 crore. You may say, it is Rs 115 crore on an average. Our upgradations are improvements only and as we make more trains, our cost decreases. With volume...

A batch of 128 Vande Bharat wheels were transported from Ukraine to its neighbouring Romania by road and these are now being airlifted to India. These will reach Chennai airport in three lots. The first, of around 42 wheels, arrived on Wednesday. Th...

Plans for the deployment of the system along 34,000 route kilometres have been included in the railway works programme of 2020-21 and 2021-22. It will now be expanded to the rest of the rail network. "Tenders for deployment of Kavach across the enti...

SBI invited bids from ARCs for its Rs 4101 crore outstanding dues to KSK Mahanadi Power by 30 December, sets a reserve price of Rs 1423 crore. The RP set deadline of 22 December for firm bids

This deal will give Modi government's 'Atma Nirbhar Bharat' mission a big boost. Railways, for the first time, had put a condition that the tender would require a minimum of 75 per cent of the content be made locally.

The Indian Railways awarded the Vande Bharat-type train sets tender to Hyderabad-based Medha Servo Drives for Rs 2,211 crore on Friday. The contract involves the designing and manufacturing of propulsion, control and other equipment required for mak...

Now there are only two valid bids of BHEL and Medha Servo Drives. Medha, which had got the contract for the manufacturing for the first two such trains, has quoted the lowest bid, sources said.

The DPSUs, Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and headquarters of the armed forces (SHQs) can display on SRIJAN those items that are being imported currently so that the Indian industry can design, develop and manufacture them domestically as per its capa...

The facility, touted the country’s largest private-sector rail coach factory, provides employment opportunity to 2,200 persons in the region, said the Telangana government in a statement.

The three Indian companies are Alpha Design Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bharat Forge Ltd and Medha Servo Drives Pvt Ltd, the space organisation said in a statement on Friday.

Telangana has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Medha Servo on Friday evening for the rail and metro coach manufacturing facility.