Make in India Initiatives in Metro Rails

Published date01 June 2019
Date01 June 2019
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/0019556119857864
Subject MatterArticles
Make in India Initiatives
in Metro Rails
Durga Shanker Mishra1
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).
Keywords
Make in India, Metro Rail Policy 2017, phased manufacturing plan, standardisation
for investment promotion, import substitution and export promotion
Introduction
India is emerging as one of the fastest growing economies in the world and is
expected to be among the top three economies over the next 10–15 years, backed
Article
Indian Journal of Public
Administration
65(2) 409–415, 2019
© 2019 IIPA
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1 Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, India.
Corresponding author:
Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India,
Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi 110011, India.
E-mail: secyurban@nic.in

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