Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said during Question Hour that the railways are modernising rolling stock workshops and inducting new technologies, including use of robotic welding, laser cutting and welding.
Some other new technological induction were -- CNC machine centre to equip workshops for repair and production of modern stainless steel wagons and augmentation of capacities of existing workshops to meet the requirements of increasing population of such wagons.
"The Indian Railways are regularly upgrading and modernising their workshops to enable them to cater to maintenance and manufacture of modern design coaches, wagons, locomotives and equipments being inducted from time to time as well as to augment facilities for increased workloads," he said.