India’s first caterpillar train will be set up by which state government of India?

India’s first caterpillar train will be set up by which state government of India?
[A]Assam
[B]Uttar Pradesh
[C]Haryana
[D]Rajasthan

Haryana
The Haryana Government will set up a pilot corridor for an innovative concept of ‘Caterpillar Train (or C-Train)’ that will fly over city’s traffic, in Gurgaon city. The C-train includes a citywide network of lightweight, elevated train coaches running at about 100 kmph on a track supported by poles bent into arches. The cost is about $3 million for a pilot system and approx $20 million for full-fledged automated system.The concept of C-Train was co-developed by an Indian Railways engineer Ashwani Kumar Upadhyaya along with Emil Jacob for which they won a global award at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States in 2016 for this innovative idea.

Originally written on December 31, 2016 and last modified on December 20, 2023.

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