Indian Railways awarded Rs 485.09 cr tender to Besco Ltd

New Delhi: The delivery expectations of one-third of wagons are fixed at December 2024-end. According to the officials, the remaining balance wagons will be delivered in two batches of 400 each by December 2025-end. Besco Ltd. will supply Bogie Open Wagon type [BOXNS] wagons which are used for ferrying coal and steel on the national transporter.

The approximate cost is around Rs 34.26 lakh per wagon by Besco which will be manufactured in West Bengal’s 24 Parganas [South].

 

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This is estimated to be the fifth tender awarded by the Indian Railways for the procurement of BOXNS wagons in the current fiscal. The first and largest of these tender has been given to Kolkata-based Jupiter Wagons to supply 4,000 wagons, totaling a tender value of Rs 1,616.96 crore.

While the second largest BOXN Wagon tender has been grabbed by another Kolkata-based firm Texmaco Rail and Engineering, for Rs 1374.41 crore to supply 3,400 units.

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The Indian Railways sets a target of production of 23,000 wagons in the current fiscal, up from 21,000 in the financial year 2022-23. Out of these, 21,500 wagons will be supplied by the industry while 1,500 will come from Railway production units in fiscal 2023-24.

Till January 2024, the total wagon production stood at 15,498 units in the current financial year.

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