{"id":520905,"date":"2022-09-12T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=520905"},"modified":"2022-09-12T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T04:54:16","slug":"railways-floats-tender-to-procure-80000-indigenous-forged-wheels-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-floats-tender-to-procure-80000-indigenous-forged-wheels-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways floats tender to procure 80,000 indigenous forged wheels a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aiming to reduce import-dependence, the railways ministry is set to procure nearly 80,000 forged train wheels at a cost of Rs 600 crore per year.<br \/>\nUnion Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Friday the ministry floated a tender inviting the industry to set up a facility to produce these wheels, which will primarily be used for semi-high speed trains (Vande Bharat) and high-speed trains (bullet train). <\/p>\n<p>An official said the estimated cost of setting up a production unit is close to Rs 1,000 crore, and that the tender is only open to Indian companies. The ministry earlier relied on imports from Europe for these specialised wheels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aiming to reduce import-dependence, the railways ministry is set to procure nearly 80,000 forged train wheels at a cost of Rs 600 crore per year. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Friday the ministry floated a tender inviting the industry to set up a facility to produce these wheels, which will primarily be used for semi-high speed trains (Vande Bharat) and high-speed trains (bullet train). An official said the estimated cost of setting up a production unit is close to Rs 1,000 crore, and that the tender is only open to Indian companies. The ministry earlier relied on imports from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}