Article: India : Delhi Metro gets its first indigenous metro coach from BEML.

Byline: rakshali03

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation received its first standard gauge coach made by Bharat Earth Movers Limited. Karnataka chief minister symbolically handed the 80-tonne wagon to Delhi Metro chairman E Sreedharan.

The wagon has been developed by BEML in collaboration with the National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO). BEML has also bagged a contract to supply 150 coaches for the metro project in Bangalore for an order worth Rs1,672.5 crore.

For Delhi Metro, it will supply 196 standard gauge coaches for its phase II project. According to Sreedharan it may also get an extended order to deliver another 60 coaches.

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