Make in India Initiatives in Metro Rails

In: Indian journal of public administration, Band 65, Heft 2, S. 409-415

Abstract

In line with the Government of India's focus on Make in India, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) became the first ministry to issue Phased Manufacturing Plan (PMP) for indigenous procurement of metro rail components. Accordingly, the specification of various components has been standardised to engage and encourage long-term investment in the fast-growing metro-rail sector, which already has 657 km of operational lines in eighteen cities along with more than 800 km of metro rail projects under construction in twenty-seven cities. India is now almost self-sufficient for power supply traction and track material. Further, MoHUA has successful negations with JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) and ADB (Asian Development Bank) to encourage indigenous production and assembling for the upcoming Chennai Metro and Mumbai Metro. MoHUA has also issued Metro Rail Policy 2017 to focus on systematic planning and imple-mentation and guide state governments with emphasis on standardisation and indigenisation of metro technologies keeping in view import substitution, export promotion, sustainability and cost-reduction (Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, 2017).