Five months into the new financial year, the Indian Railways is on track to achieve production targets for coaches, wheels, locomotives, for the year 2022-23, despite supply constraints, a senior Railways official said on Tuesday.
“All Indian Railways Production Units are supplying to meet the ever-increasing requirement of Rolling Stock for Indian Railways and are on fast track to achieve their production targets in 2022-23, despite some supply chain constraints,” the official said.
As per the data shared by the official, for 2022-23, against a set target of 5,896 LHB or Linke Hofmann Busch coaches, the Railways has achieved production of 1,887 such coaches in the first five months [April-August] of the current year. The production of LHB coaches stood at 6,291 units in 2021-22, a 45% year-on-year increase over production of 4,323 coaches in 2020-21.
