BLW: Visit of Hon’ble Railway Minister of Bangladesh, Mohd. Nurul Islam Sujan to BLW

Описание: Hon’ble Railway Minister of Bangladesh, Mohd. Nurul Islam Sujan visited BLW from 30.05.22 to 31.05.22. He was accompanied by CMD/RITES Mr. Rahul Mithal. On arrival, he was greeted by Ms. Anjali Goyal, General Manager/BLW at BLW guest house.
On this occasion, a meeting of delegates was held with a team of higher officials from BLW. During the meeting, capabilities of BLW were showcased and details of loco exported were apprised to delegation from Bangladesh. BLW has already exported 49 locomotives of meter & broad gauge to Bangladesh in past, which are successfully hauling passenger and goods trains there. Hon’ble Railway Minister of Bangladesh mentioned about long term partnership between Bangladesh Railways and Indian Railways and wished for further strengthening of bond. He expressed Bangladesh Railways’ targets of converting Metre Gauge to Broad gauge, doubling lines and extending lines till district levels. He further expressed happiness over five operational train links between India and Bangladesh. He expressed the requirement of new locomotives and manpower training for Bangladesh Railways. GM/BLW assured for full support for Bangladesh Railways. Further, existing practices and upcoming projects were discussed. Thereafter, the high level delegation visited various shops of BLW Workshop like New Block Shop, Engine Test Shop, Loco Assembly Shop etc. During shop visit, delegation was apprised about the various stages of manufacturing involved in manufacturing of locomotives. Delegation was also shown state of the art manufacturing facilities available at BLW. Standard gauge Locomotive converted from Broad Gauge locomotive was also shown to the delegation. The delegation was impressed by the design capabilities and manufacturing facilities available at BLW.
Locomotives exported by BLW to various countries taps BLW’s expertise of six decades of locomotive manufacture, for making diesel locos for export-Indian Railway’s contribution to AatmaNirbhar Bharat. Export orders are also seen as development of capability in private sector and public sector entities, for supply of critical components in manufacture of diesel locomotive of various gauges like meter, cape and broad.
Recently 6 cape gauge locos were exported to Mozambique, in spirit of AatmaNirbhar Bharat, these Locos have been:
• Designed in India,
• Made in India and
• Financed by India
• For Export.
Hon’ble Railway Minister of Bangladesh was accompanied with following:
S. No. Name S/Shri Designation
1. Mohd. Nurul Islam Sujan Hon’ble Minister for Railways, Bangladesh
2. Sardar Shahadat Ali Additional Director General ( Operations), Bangladesh Railway
3. Dr AKM Atiqul Haque Minister (Commercial), Bangladesh High Commission, New Delhi
4. Md Shafiul Alam Counsellor (Political), Bangladesh High Commission, New Delhi
5. Rahul Mithal CMD/RITES
6. A.K. Singh GM/Expotech/RITES
7. Nihad Kabir RITES Associate (Chairman Green World Solutions Limited, Dhaka Bangladesh and associate of RITES Ltd for Bangladesh)
8. Deedarul Huq Khan RITES Associate (Managing Director Green World Solutions Limited, Dhaka Bangladesh and associate of RITES Ltd for Bangladesh)
9. Altamash Kabir RITES Associate (Director Green World Solutions Limited, Dhaka Bangladesh and associate of RITES Ltd for Bangladesh)