(a) whether Railways has decided not to use equipments manufactured by foreign countries;
(b) if so, the details in this regard;
(c) the details of equipments imported by the Railways during each of the last three years;
(d) whether the Railways propose to modernise their workshops which have been lying closed;
(e) if so, the details thereof, State-wise; and
(f) the funds allocated for the purpose during the current financial year?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI R. VELU)
(a) No, Sir.
(b) Does not arise.
(c) A statement is attached.
(d) At present there is no proposal to modernise/reopen the workshops, which have been lying closed.
(e) & (f) Do not arise.
`STATEMENT REFERRED TO THE REPLY TO PART (C) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1477 BY S/SHRI PRADEEP GANDHI, VIJOY KRISHNA, HARIBHAU RATHOD, PROF.RASA SINGH RAWAT, RATILAL KALIDAS VARMA, RAJNARAYAN BUDHOLIYA, IQBAL AHMED SARADGI, DR.M. JAGANNATH AND SHRI KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH. TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 9.12.04 REGARDING REVIVAL OF RAILWAY PRODUCTION UNITS.`
Details Of Equipments imported by the Railways during the year 2001-02 (In lakhs of Rupees)
S. No. Description of item Qty. Value
1 Vital sign monitor 1 1.45 2 Ifoflourance vapouriser 1 1.41 3 CNC Milling Machine 2 408.00 4 Bevel edge preparation Milling Machine 2 15.87 5 Coordinate Measuring Machine 3D 1 76.66 6 CNC Milling and drilling Machine 1 150.81 7 Pin welding Machine 2 4.31 8 Welding trolly with magnetic track 1 12.82 9 Converyorised Component Painting system 1 145.59 10 Crack testing Machine 1 1.21 11 Gogan Coilling Machine 1 8.14 12 Gogan Coilling Machine 2 3.69 13 Bar Planning Machine 1 85.59 14 Bar Heating furnace 1 6.99 15 Bar Heating furnace 3 4.31 16 Blood Cell counter 1 4.31 17 Endoscope Machine 1 2.90 18 Auto Refractor 1 4.56 19 Ventilator/Respirator 1 9.72 20 Auto Keratometer 1 1.17 21 `Accessories of Ear,Nose,Throat Operating Microscope` 1 3.35 22 Gripper Unit 2 41.72 23 Hydrogen Determinator 1 27.96 24 Ballast Cleaners 6 5789.00 25 Dynamic Track stabiliser 4 26 Track relaying train 1
Total 6811.54
Details Of Equipments imported by the Railways during the year 2002-03
(In lakhs of Rupees)
S. No. Description of item Qty. Value
1 Auto Analyser 1 19.78 2 Bogie Frame Dimensional Checking Machine 2 45.93 3 Spectrometer 1 25.21 4 CNC Turret Punch press 1 179.51 5 CNC Press Brake 800 Tonnes 1 314.04 6 CNC turning Centre 2 162.66 7 CNC turning Centre 1 87.61 8 CNC Modular top spindle edge Prep. Machine 1 89.89 9 CNC axle turning lathe 3 217.26 10 Re-railing equipments 59 2092.04 11 Hydraulic Rescue Device 62 436.79 12 Plasma coupled inductively spectrograph 3 87.87 13 Dual end roughing lathe 1 1103.50 14 CNC milling Machine 1 1310.45 15 Simulator In Motion 12 10474.00 16 Welding Beval preparation Machine 2 13.57 17 Ultra Sound Machine 1 4.79 18 Cut Grinding Machine 1 5.76 19 Defibrilator 1 4.86 20 Lieca Microscope 1 1.38 21 Rotary Microtome 1 3.49 22 Operation Table 1 10.03 23 Sandum Cilo sping 1 2.91 24 Temposonic displacement 1 3.27 25 Cut Grinding Machine 1 5.76 26 Tamping Machine 11 7773.00 27 Ballast Cleaners 5 28 Dynamic Track Stabiliser 3 29 Shoulder Ballast Cleaning Machine 4
Total 24475.36
Details Of Equipments imported by the Railways during the year 2003-04
(In lakhs of Rupees)
S. No. Description of item Qty. Value
1 Auto absorption spectrograph meter for industrial waste 1 9.59 2 CNC Gear hobbing Machine 1 260.89 3 CNC Gear Grinding Machine 2 653.73 4 CNC Laser Cuttng Machine 2 506.03 5 CNC Laser Cutting and weding Machine 2 1799.22 6 Co-ordinte measuring Machine 1 312.63 7 Creep Feed Grinding Machine 1 306.06 8 Pipe Threading Machine 2 35.24 9 Internal Grinding Machine 1 418.11 10 Huck Bolt installation Equipment 1 25.36 11 Spectrum analyser 1 13.73 12 Ultrasound whole body colour doppler Machine 1 15.69 13 Defibrilator with Monitor 1 3.41 14 Electro Stimulator 1 1.36 15 Air Compressor 1 4.02 16 Spectrum analyser 1 13.73 17 Tamping Machine 13 12573.00 18 Ballast Cleaners 3 19 Dynamic Track Stabiliser 5 20 Shoulder Ballast Cleaning Machine 2
Total 16951.80