Sunday, 14 July 2013

Better Passenger Amenities And Safety Features

Integral Coach Factory, Chennai-600038, is a premier Production Unit of Indian Railways manufacturing railway passenger coaches.

The factory was set up in 1955 with Swiss collaboration. As milestones in this endless travel, ICF has obtained the ISO: 9001, ISO: 1400, ISO: 18001 and Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award-2012 certificates for the QMS, EMS and OHSAS systems respectively. 

Recently a Memorandum Of Understanding has been signed on 18.06.2013 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. The MOU was signed by Shri Pradyumna Vyas, Director, NID and Shri Pankaj Kumar, Chief Mechanical Engineer, ICF in the presence of Shri Abhay K.Khanna, General Manager, ICF.

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 today at ICF in the presence of Shri Abhay K.Khanna, General Manager,ICF, Shri P.Rama Krishna Rao, Activity Chairperson, NID, Shri Sunit Sinha, Director, RITES, Shri V.Suresh, Sr.Tech.Econ officer IITM and other Senior ICF officials.

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