Big achievement story! Piyush Goyal-led Indian Railways creates one more ‘Make in India’ record in locomotive production. Despite COVID-19 connected challenges, the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW)- the locomotive manufacturing factory of Indian Railways is breaking all the preceding manufacturing records. The Production Unit of the national transporter accelerated its production to a record level this year. According to the information shared by the Railway Ministry, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works created as lots of as 250 electric locomotives (WAG-9 HC, 33071) in 188 working days, as against 190 days final year. Here, watch the video shared by the Railway Ministry:
Another ‘Make in India’ achievement story of Indian Railways:
Indian Railways’ PU, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) accelerates its production to a record level in spite of COVID connected challenges.
It created 250 electric locos in 188 working days, as against 190 days final year. pic.twitter.com/J6l0EfXHXL
— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) December 30, 2020
According to Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, in the year 2019-20, the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works manufactured one hundred locomotives by 25 July 2019 (97 working days), 150 locomotives by 31 August 2019 (128 working days), 200 locomotives by 15 October 2019 (162 working days), 250 locomotives by 21 November 2019 (190 working days). In the year 2020-21 (Lockdown months- April, May and Unlock down months- June, July, August), the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works manufactured one hundred locomotives by 8 September 2020 (102 working days), 150 locomotives by 13 October 2020 (129 working days), 200 locomotives by 23 November 2020 (159 working days) and 250 locomotives by 29 December 2020 (188 working days).
According to the locomotive manufacturing factory, in the monetary year 2015-16, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works manufactured 250 quantity of locomotives in 274 working days in the monetary year 2016-17, the CLW created 250 locomotives in 277 working days in the monetary year 2017-18, the CLW manufactured 250 locomotives in 249 working days, in the monetary year 2018-19, the CLW manufactured 250 locomotives in 217 working days in the monetary year 2019-20, the CLW created 250 locos in 190 days, whilst in the monetary year 2020-21, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works created 250 locos in 188 working days. Thus, the time taken by the locomotive factory has decreased by 29 working days considering the fact that the monetary year 2018-19.