CHENNAI:
India’s metro systems, which have proliferated across its fast-growing urban centres, are moving to align on design and technology standards in a bid to streamline operations and contain long-term costs. In a milestone initiative, Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) hosted the inaugural meeting of a national working group on Friday aimed at overhauling how Indian metros approach rolling stock — the lifeblood of their commuter services.
Senior executives and technical experts from the country’s largest metro operators — including Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad — gathered in Chennai to confront a shared challenge: how to manage, maintain and modernise a growing fleet of urban trains in an era of tightening budgets and rising passenger expectations, a release stated.
“We’re entering a new phase of metro expansion in India,” said M.A. Siddique, Managing Director of CMRL. “As urban mobility becomes increasingly sophisticated, collaboration between systems is no longer optional — it’s essential for efficiency, reliability and cost-effectiveness.”
The Rolling Stock Working Group, backed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and convened under I-Metro, represents a coordinated effort to bring coherence to a sector that has often grown in silos. The Chennai meeting — the first since the working group’s formation — marks a key turning point in the drive toward standardisation and technological convergence.
Chennai Metro Rail, appointed the lead agency for the initiative, is leveraging its rising stature in India’s urban transit landscape. With Phase 2 of its own metro network scheduled for completion in the next two years, CMRL is keen to both contribute to and benefit from the emerging national conversation around next-generation transit solutions.
Topics on the agenda ranged from predictive maintenance and lifecycle cost optimisation to artificial intelligence in asset management and localisation of critical spares. Senior CMRL leaders, including Manoj Goyal, Director (Systems & Operations), and A.R. Rajendran, Chief General Manager (Rolling Stock), joined metro officials from Mumbai to Kochi in sharing lessons on overhaul strategies, vendor development and obsolescence management, the release added.
India’s metro systems, which have proliferated across its fast-growing urban centres, are moving to align on design and technology standards in a bid to streamline operations and contain long-term costs. In a milestone initiative, Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) hosted the inaugural meeting of a national working group on Friday aimed at overhauling how Indian metros approach rolling stock — the lifeblood of their commuter services.
Senior executives and technical experts from the country’s largest metro operators — including Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad — gathered in Chennai to confront a shared challenge: how to manage, maintain and modernise a growing fleet of urban trains in an era of tightening budgets and rising passenger expectations, a release stated.
“We’re entering a new phase of metro expansion in India,” said M.A. Siddique, Managing Director of CMRL. “As urban mobility becomes increasingly sophisticated, collaboration between systems is no longer optional — it’s essential for efficiency, reliability and cost-effectiveness.”
The Rolling Stock Working Group, backed by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and convened under I-Metro, represents a coordinated effort to bring coherence to a sector that has often grown in silos. The Chennai meeting — the first since the working group’s formation — marks a key turning point in the drive toward standardisation and technological convergence.
Chennai Metro Rail, appointed the lead agency for the initiative, is leveraging its rising stature in India’s urban transit landscape. With Phase 2 of its own metro network scheduled for completion in the next two years, CMRL is keen to both contribute to and benefit from the emerging national conversation around next-generation transit solutions.
Topics on the agenda ranged from predictive maintenance and lifecycle cost optimisation to artificial intelligence in asset management and localisation of critical spares. Senior CMRL leaders, including Manoj Goyal, Director (Systems & Operations), and A.R. Rajendran, Chief General Manager (Rolling Stock), joined metro officials from Mumbai to Kochi in sharing lessons on overhaul strategies, vendor development and obsolescence management, the release added.
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