1. Diesel engine videsh se Aayat nahi karna padta bhai...
Licensed technology transfer ke tahat already GE/EMD jaisi companies se already contract kiya hua hai jisko use karke yahi marhowra/Varanasi mein manufacture hota hai.
2. 62% of power generation here in India is coal/crude based and for your info crude is imported.
Now 60% of coal here in India is of inferior quality causing...
more... more pollution and less power. High grade anthracite quality coal needs to be imported.
3. Irrespective of whether a single train passes through a section the whole day or 100 trains, 25KV traction power supply needs to be maintained in the OHE round the clock. Do you know the cost of maintaining it,manpower and equipments..