What new advancements Alstom is bringing to Indian Railways?
In November 2015, Alstom signed a contract with Ministry of Railways to supply Indian Railways with 800 double section freight electric locomotives of 12,000 hp each with its longterm maintenance. Since then, we have been making good progress. A number of steps have taken—signing share-holding agreement between Indian Railways and Alstom, forming a special purpose vehicle and incorporation of a company with 26 percent equity coming from Indian Railways and rest from Alstom. All of this has been done. We have already started fencing of the 275 acre land acquired for the factory by the Indian Railways and will be starting the construction of the factory shortly.

The 100 percent Foreign Direct Investment in the railway sector allowed by the Government has provided a renewed push to the Indian mainline railway sector.

The total contract is worth above €3 billion. This project includes the set-up of a plant at Madhepura (Bihar) and two maintenance depots at Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Nagpur (Maharashtra). The delivery of the locomotives will spread between 2018 and 2028. The Prima locomotive for Indian Railways will be 9,000 kW at the wheel rim and will run at a speed up to 120 km/h. This contract positions Alstom as the number one in heavy-haul electric locomotives segment with now over 1,200 double locomotives ordered for the last decade.

Alstom won the award for ‘Excellence in ‘Make-in-India' category. Please briefly tell us about the same.
Alstom won the award for ‘Excellence in ‘Make-in-India' category at ‘Metro Rail Asia Summit 2016'. The summit is India's one of the premier forums to address issues related to the further development of metro rail in India.

Tell us about state-of-the-art facilities that the company has in India.
Today, Alstom Transport India is nearly 2,000 member family with a footprint spread across four world-class sites in India-Noida, Bangalore, Sri City and Coimbatore. With an engineering excellence centre, R&D centre and global IS&T operations hub in Bangalore, state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities at Coimbatore (production for traction equipment) and Sri City (for Rolling Stock) and several project offices spread across the country.

Tell about the international projects that the company's Indian arm is undertaking
Apart several Indian projects, we are also working on the Sydney metro project.

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