India and Japan ink three agreements for cooperation in Railway Sector

MoU between India and Japan on cooperation and assistance in the Mumbai – Ahmedabad HSR Project.Japan has offered an assistance of over Rs.79,000 crore for the project.The cooperation of Japan will be fixed on transfer of technology and “Make in India”.Japan will assist India in training of personnel for HSR.
2. Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between Ministry of Railways and MLIT, Japan on technological cooperation
Areas of cooperation:

(a) Railway Safety;

(b) Rolling stock including train sets/EMUs;

(c) Information sharing for station development and land value capture;

(d) Information sharing for environment friendly sanitation technology in trains

(e) Signalling and telecommunication;

(f) Railway Electrification;

(g) Civil structure and railway track system;

(h) Train control system;

(i) Mitigation of natural disasters; and

(j) Any other areas jointly determined by both Sides within the scope of this MoC. 

3.  MoU on technological cooperation between RDSO and Railway Technical Research Institute Japan