South Central Railway (SCR) has stated that the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Warangal on July 8 will be for laying the foundation stone for the ₹521 crore ‘railway wagon manufacturing unit at Kazipet’, which will a capacity to produce 100 wagons each month in the first year and this could be scaled upto to 200 wagons a month from the second year.
An official spokesperson informed on Saturday that the originally conceptualised ‘wagon repair workshop’ at Kazipet at an estimated cost of ₹269 crore was to build a periodic overhaul (POH) unit for repairing about 200 wagons per month. But, this got upgraded following demand from ‘political leaders’ to promote local industry for supporting a manufacturing unit.
The reasoning was that a full fledged manufacturing unit would help in economic development of the region and also provide employment opportunities too in view of the enhanced requirement of new wagons by the Indian Railways.
