¨ Augmentation of POH capacity to 150 coaches per month.
¨ Work for augmenting the POH capacity to 150 coaches per month has been sanctioned by the Railway Board vide Pink Book item no: 328 of 2008-09.
¨ Development of facility to undertake POH of Duronto coaches (LHB shell and air spring bogies).
¨ Indian Railways is switching over to LHB design shell and ICF bogie with air spring. Duronto Express running between Bhubaneswar to New Delhi is with this type of coaches.
¨ The workshop is actively planning to be in readiness to undertake POH of these hybrid coaches by 2011-12. First IOH of air spring Duranto bogie set has been successfully carried out in March 2011.
¨ Rajdhani rakes of NDLS-BBS express have been handed over to ECoR wef 01.02.2011. MCS workshop is gearing up for POH and IOH of FIAT bogies with LHB shell from 01.01.2012.