India, Switzerland
ink two MoUs in the field of Railways
Two MoUs have been signed in the course of the visit of President of
the Swiss Confederation, Mrs. Doris Leuthard to India on today
i.e.31.8.2017 between Ministry of Railways and Swiss Confederation.
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The first MoU
is between Ministry of Railways and Federal Department of the Environment,
Transport and Communications of the Swiss Confederation for technical
cooperation in Rail Sector. This was signed in the presence of Hon’ble
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and President of
the Swiss Confederation, Mrs. Doris Leuthard by Shri Ashwani Lohani,
Chairman Railway Board and Dr. Andreas Baum, Swiss Ambassador to India.
The MoU is a follow up on bilateral
cooperation in Rail sector discussed in the meeting held between Minister of
Railways Mr. Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu and Swiss Ambassador in July 2016.
The MoU aims at cooperation in the areas of:
a. Traction Rolling
stock
b. EMU and Train sets
c. Traction
Propulsion Equipments
d. Freight and Passenger
Cars
e. Tilting Trains
f. Railway
Electrification Equipments
g. Train scheduling
and operation improvement
h. Railway Station
modernization
i. Multimodal
transport
j. Tunneling
technology
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The second MoU
is between Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL) and Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. This was signed by Shri Sanjay Gupta, CMD/KRCL and Prof. Sarah Springman,
Rector, ETH Zurich. This will help Konkan Railway in
establishing the George Fernandes Institute of Tunnel Technology (GFITT) at Goa
especially for assimilation and dissemination of knowledge in the field of
tunneling. GFITT aims to not only train KRCL’s own manpower for its Tunneling
Projects but also wishes to generate qualified and trained personnel for the
benefit of other Government organisations, private sector and even foreign
organisations to bridge the huge gap in levels of knowledge and qualified
manpower required to meet the key segment of infrastructure development in
India.
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