 "Diesel locomotives procured under the agreement would have no scope for productive utilisation in the Indian Railways network in future, CAG said")
The Indian Railways is set to revisit its signalling system overhaul plans by bringing in the European Train Control System (ETCS) level-2 technology in a phase-wise manner on busy routes. As part of this, the national transporter is set to take up a Rs 20-billion project to bring in the new signaling technology in the 850-kilo meter stretch between Mathura and Vadodara.
This comes after the plan to revamp the entire signaling system for Rs 780 billion was red flagged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a review meeting on March 26 citing the high project cost. Following this, the
