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Written By Naveen - 23 May, 2008

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Kuala Lumpur: A trip in the monorail and zipping over the crowded streets here on elevated tracks has convinced visiting Railway Minister Lalu Prasad that India, especially, the capital of his home state Bihar, needs such an advanced transportation facility.

"Patna is the best place for monorail," he told a press conference here on Friday.

I have chosen Patna because of its congested roads, Lalu, who is on a three-day visit to Malaysia, said.

The minister said he had already asked Indian company IRCON to get all details about the monorail system from its Malaysian manufacturers Scomi.

An IRCON official added that though monorail was part of the urban transport system which came under various state governments, the minister had taken initiative on his own choosing Patna as one of the cities for it.

"I am impressed with the monorail. It can be emulated in India and we will soon initiate discussions with Malaysia," Lalu said after witnessing the signing of the USD one billion contract between IRCON and the Malaysian government to build double tracking system between the Seremban-Gemas sectors.

Scomi, which is currently testing its new generation coaches, had a brief power-point presentation for the minister and his high level delegation on Thursday.

The company, which is partly owned by Malaysian premier Abdullah Badawi's son Kamaluddin, is already bidding for a project to set up monorail in Mumbai.

Group Ceo of Scomi Shah Hakim Zain said each new generation car would be able to carry 125 passengers and each train would have four to six cars.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200805161968.htm

 

COMMENTS

laaloo right on the aaloo

tsubba - 24 May, 2008 - 04:45

awesome that laaloo is on the mono track. if he manages to come up with standardized nation wide standards for mono primarily track width, i will worship him for as long as i live and vote his RJDS for as long as i live. indian national standards for monorails. i want him to get hos babus on that before anything else. if these standards are in place, bmtc will have to re-invent itself. just imagine the possibilities. its basically the same thing. you still are burning rubber against concrete, but if you can do it so as to save the essential character of bangalore, and do it at a larger capacity, then nothing like it. but first make it totally indian. standardize and see if technology transfer is possible.

Indian LRT..

blrsri - 25 May, 2008 - 02:15

Its debatable if standard 'components' from various vendors or single vendor is better..but what if..lets leave the monorail thought for now and look at LRT..

We have..

BHEL for locos

BEML for coaches

and technically we do not need a Bombardier to build the rolling stock..we have for example the wheel and axle plant rt here in Blr..so putting this all together  should not be too difficult!

Lets get one LRT from Bombardier and get them to transfer technology(like we do with the MIG's/Sukhoi's) and build LRT on our own!

 

standards

tsubba - 25 May, 2008 - 03:15

standards are a good thing sri. they ensure sustainability. what happens if our favourite vendor goes belly up? IT guru taavu, no need to for me to rant off on standards, eco-systems etc etc.

He is going to steal our taxes

mcadambi - 24 May, 2008 - 12:18

This corrupt man is going to steal more of our taxes for his pet projects. Patna cannot even have good roads - let alone good monorail:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Jayant_Patil_questions_Centre_on_funds_allocation/articleshow/3040971.cms

mono rail in Blr?

narayan82 - 24 May, 2008 - 04:34

What happened to the feeder Mono Rail service complementing the Metro? This seemed to be perfect as it costs considerably less than the Metro is a much quicker solution The black line in the Metro map I understand is the Mono rail. Is this going to be taken up after Metro?

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