Concrete sleeper makers bend to Railways terms

Ashutosh Kumar
Posted: Tuesday, Sep 09, 2008 at 0000 hrs IST
Updated: Tuesday, Sep 09, 2008 at 0000 hrs IST

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New Delhi, Sep 8: for a sleeper manufacturing unit range between Rs 5 crore and Rs 10 crore. An amount of Rs 40 lakh to 50 lakh is spent on replacement and maintenance. The crux of the problem is the insistence by the ministry that there should be uniform rates of the sleepers across the country. But companies say they cannot supply at a uniform rate when the input cost varies from place to place. Also, raw material prices, manpower prices have gone up substantially, said a manufacturer.

As per the tenders to set up sleepers unit, it was mandatory to set up the units where sleepers were required. “Normally an industrialist will put up a factory at a place where the raw materials are cheap and readily available. Now, there will be difference in the pricing of those who have raw material source nearby compared with those who source raw materials from far away places,” he said....

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