Kolkata: Titagarh Rail Systems and ABB India have signed an agreement to deliver propulsion systems for 25kV metro projects, including technology transfer for Train Control and Monitoring System (TCMS). The deal also involves a gradual transfer of manufacturing and co-production of Converters and Traction Motors under the Make in India initiative.Titagarh acquired the technology for TCMS for the 750 V metro systems in 2023, and the current agreement will enable Titagarh to complete its portfolio for TCMS for both traction systems under which Indian metro systems operate. Titagarh set up its own TCMS laboratory in its design centre in Bangalore last year. The company stated that it was already producing traction motors for locomotives and EMUs and under the agreement with ABB, it will progressively co-produce propulsion systems for metro applications.Commenting on the development, Titagarh Rail Systems vice-chairman and MD Umesh Chowdhary said: “This agreement with ABB marks a big step towards the direction given by PM Narendra Modi towards not only making in India, but becoming ‘Atmanirbhar’ as well. At Titagarh, we have always been committed to the call of our honourable PM to make India fully ‘viksit’ by 2047 and we are continuously enhancing our capabilities towards that effect. After being the first company in India to develop aluminium metro trains, we have now set up state-of-the-art facilities to make both stainless steel and aluminium metros and in our endeavour to backwardly integrate and become self sufficient in the entire value chain of manufacturing trains, we have been continuously developing our capabilities and facilities including by way of strategic alliances such as the one with ABB.”
