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Time of India
05-06-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
Alstom bags €135 million contract for Chennai Metro Phase II, ET Infra
Trainsets and maintenance scope Advt By , ETInfra Join the community of 2M+ industry professionals Subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights & analysis. Get updates on your preferred social platform Follow us for the latest news, insider access to events and more. French transport company Alstom has secured a contract worth €135 million (approximately ₹1,321 crore) from Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) for Phase II of the city's metro project. PTI has reported that the deal includes the design, manufacture, supply, testing, and commissioning of 96 Metropolis metro cars Under the contract, Alstom will supply 32 three-car trainsets. The company will also provide 15 years of maintenance services after the warranty period. This will include cleaning, obsolescence management, and upkeep of plant and machinery at the metro trains will be manufactured at Alstom's facility in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, aligning with the Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat initiatives. Each trainset can carry around 900 passengers and is designed for multiple unit operations. They will include evacuation features for train-to-train and train-to-track 119-km Phase II network will have three corridors, covering more than 76 km of elevated track and 43 km Loison, Managing Director, Alstom India, said, 'This new contract strengthens our association with CMRL in helping modernise Chennai's urban rail mobility landscape.'Alstom is currently producing 108 driverless Metropolis cars for another section of Phase II, connecting Poonamallee Bypass to Light House through 30 stations — 18 elevated and 12 its first contract with CMRL in 2010, Alstom has delivered 208 metro cars for Phase I of the project.
New Indian Express
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New Indian Express
Patricia's choice: the first Indian-origin director of Alliance Francaise Delhi on her two mothers & adoption story
Facing it Loison tells this story with the openness of someone who has told the story before. Writing the book also made her look at her biological mother's decision closely, obsessively, repeatedly. It was also the chance to tell her story, her way. 'It is said if a chick is made to leave the mother, some die and some survive. So, it is with a human child. Whether you blend or cling, it's a decision you make. You make your new family yours. Whichever family or the mother you came from, whatever happened before, you can't have that. You can't have both….' When she was in her 30s, Gisèle gave her her case file. 'I am told she breastfed me,' Loison says softly. Each detail has added to her mental picture of how she wants to imagine her biological mother right up to the moment of separation — from her skin, hands, and bosom to another's. These feelings she also confronted when she gave birth. 'When you give birth, you put yourself in a lineage of women but when I was giving birth my biological mom wasn't there….' The book was Loison's way to give her corporeal form, make her seem alive, and around. This is perhaps not a story she wants to close; when she was part of the Press contingent covering French president Nicolas Sarkozy's official trip to India in 2010 for LCI, the news channel of TF1 France's first private TV channel and the biggest in Europe, she went to Shishu Bhavan to try to get a lead that she could follow up about her mother but to no avail.
