In a major boost to the country’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ initiative, Ramkrishna Forgings Limited and Titagarh Wagons consortium was on Wednesday declared the lowest bidder (L1) by the Ministry of Railways for manufacturing and supplying forged wheels to the Indian Railways.
As the selected bidder, the consortium will set up a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in India for forged wheel production and will supply approximately 1.6-million-wheel discs of different rolling stocks of the Indian Railways over a period of 20 years, at about 80,000 wheels per annum. The consortium will also be required to set up a wheel test centre at a railway site for prototype testing of newly designed wheels.
