USE OF ALUMINIUM AND STEEL IN COACHES
RAJYA SABHA
Annual requirement
of steel for track procurement and the manufacture of coaches
and wagons is 9,60,000 Metric Tonnes.
The quantum of aluminium
used is approximately 440 kilograme for non-air conditioned coaches
and about 1800 to 200 kilogrames for air-conditioned coaches.
There is a negligible use of aluminium in wagon manufacture.
At present, there
is no proposal to manufacture aluminium bodied coaches. However,
order for manufacture of one prototype aluminium bodied wagon
has been placed.
This information
was given by the Minister of Railways Shri Nitish Kumar in a written
reply to a question from S/Shri K. Rama Mohana Rao and Rama Muni
Reddy Sirigireddy in the Rajya Sabha today.
