Siemens, Alstom to make rail coaches with aircraft-like interiors in India

Three foreign consortia are in the race for setting up a Rs 20,000-cr coach factory in West Bengal

Modern railway coaches with aircraft-like interiors could soon be running on Indian tracks. Transportation giants Alstom, Siemens, and Stadler Bussnang AG are each leading consortia that are competing to set up a Rs 20,000-crore facility to build these electric rail coaches in West Bengal on public-private partnership basis, reported the Economic Times on Friday. 

According to the financial daily, this would be the second-largest amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country's rail transport sector. 

The Indian Railways, according to the report, has already shortlisted the aforementioned three consortia — Siemens-Bombardier Transportation, CRRC Corporation of China-Alstom