Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Cost Management- The most difficult part of HSR !!

Most Developing nation would have gone ahead with the proposal of High-Speed Railways if finances could have been managed. But, Cost management is not the easiest part of High-Speed Railways and even countries like USA, CHINA, Japan etc had to put a strong plan to make it successful. No proposal of HSR have been done before without a fine strategy laid. For India, the game remains the same at this stage. To bring HSR in India may not turn out to be the easiest job because of additional disadvantage of dense population and less land available.
So, What's the way out if we want to bring out this technology to India?
The finances can be managed not just by a single rule being followed but a set of rules need to be followed. The absolutely necessity is to do the designing part our self. There is no way we can leave the designing on the foreign companies. This is the place where our countries talent need to utilized to the maximum. Then, in implementation we can save our cost to a large extent if this project is under IR management and Companies like JR, CAHSR etc are in tenders for individual jobs. We will require expertise in manufacture of coaches and locomotives, thus it will be not possible to save anything from that side. These are just a set of action can be used for making this project economical. The job recently done by CALIFORNIA HSR company is appreciable in making the HSR economical and customer oriented is something that Indian Railways can learn a thing or two from it.
It's obvious that foreign companies see you as a hub to earn money and it is our people who can help making things economical.
The more we delay, the more we pay for almost the same technology. There is not a big difference what Japan is running and what China is running. While, the former was constructed in 1962 and the later was constructed in 2008. But, the costs have gone up by few hundred time. So, If we start making it now then only we can save a lot of money!! Future Public Transportation will have HSR for sure, so why delay it ??

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