Lalganj in Rae Bareily in Uttar Pradesh by the end of next month. It can be early also as we are waiting for foreign experts, who are expected to arrive this month to conduct certain trials required before commissioning the plant. We are confident after commissioning of the unit, the entire demand of the railways of wheels will be met from the domestically manufactured wheels.”
RINL has set up a plant in Rae Bareli at a cost of around INR 1,680 crore with a production capacity of 100,000 pieces of forged wheels per annum. Earlier, the plan was to start the commercial production by March-April 2020 following the hot trial of forged wheel lines at the plant but it was disrupted due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown, and the company had to postpone it,