Mumbai : ICF, the pioneer of coach manufacturing unit in Indian Railways, is constantly making efforts to provide better passenger amenities and safety features in the coaches being manufactured in the factory.
As a part of this ongoing process, a Memorandum Of Understanding has been signed between ICF and the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmadabad, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) and RITES Ltd.
The MOU with National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad has been signed for design consultancy for aesthetic improvement of interiors and passenger amenity items for sleeper class coaches (Non-AC), AC sleeper class coaches and AC Chair car coaches. This will provide additional comforts and facilities to the travelling public. The MOU was signed by Pradyumna Vyas, Director, NID and Pankaj Kumar, Chief Mechanical Engineer, ICF in the presence of Abhay K.Khanna, General Manager, ICF.
In another Memorandum of Understanding signed between ICF and IITM for collaborative research and development in the area of identified topics like emergency openable window, use of fire retardant materials and use of bio-degradable and recyclable materials, skin tensioning of shells, computer modeling of air flow in AC coaches and energy efficiency – use of solar energy in coaches. This was signed by Krishnan Balasubramanian, DEAN, IITM and Pankaj Kumar, CME, ICF in the presence of Abhay K.Khanna, General Manager, ICF.
Yet another MOU was signed between ICF and RITES Ltd. for upgradation of quality of export coaches which includes designing and execution of furnishing of coaches to start with this project will be executed on turn-key basis by RITES for interior furnishing of DEMU coaches for export. The above MOUs were signed at ICF in the presence of P. Rama Krishna Rao, Activity Chairperson, NID, Sunit Sinha, Director, RITES, V.Suresh, Sr.Tech.Econ. Officer, IITM and other Sr. Officials of ICF.
