India has lost a derailment-free
railway technology: Former Konkan Railway managing
director
The 1.6-km-long test track structure
built at a cost of Rs 50 crore, place
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about 10 m above the ground at
Madgaon in Goa has two air-
conditioned coaches, which would
also be dismantled sold off.
With the Konkan Railway deciding t
dismantle the sky-bus test rack and
sold it off as scrap, former Konkan
Railway managing director and the
inventor of the project said that wit
this decision India had lost the
technology for a derailment-free
railway.
"Any other nation would have
grabbed the opportunity to be a
tough competitor in lucrative metro
transport business. In fact it
happened to be Prime Minister
Malaysia who wrote a personally
addressed letter to our respected P
in 2007, offering Rs2000 cr of their
funds as investment, ( not loan) , to
build Skybus in Hyderabad, the city
of the inventor, as he mentions!! Th
Malaysia leadership owned up
Skybus as SE Asia initiative and too
pride. But India thinks different? It
will be the loss of people of India,"
B Rajaram told dna.
"Skybus was the result of a shared
dream with so many engineers and
technicians of India , spread over al
industries, and proven to norms of
industry standards, and safer than
all metros in the world, as well as
economically viable, true technology
breakthrough in urban
transportation," he said.
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