Breaking Barriers & Building Them: Gujarat’s All Women Crew Turn Down the Volume on India’s First Bullet Train

A Vadodara plant completely operated by women, belonging to Larsen & Toubro, produces 90,000 precast noise barriers a month for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor-the country's first bullet train project. The 508 km rail line is to link Mumbai and Ahmedabad with a speed of 320 km/hr. The women engineers and supervisors who began with 30% have gone up to complete command, overseeing each stage from planning to quality inspection and despatch. Each panel noise barrier is 2 meters tall, 1 meter broad, and 840 kg in weight, with over 200,000 units having been fitted along 100+ km of viaduct, significantly reducing noise pollution for those residing in the neighborhood.

 

The factory uses cutting-edge, eco-friendly technology like gas-fired vapor generators to maintain low emissions and has been designed to be mobile for future projects. Innovators like Adithiya R, Niranjana G, and Rangu Sravanthi demonstrate how women are shattering gender barriers in a historically male sector while driving innovation and scale throughout India's infrastructure.

 

Source: Trak.in, CNBC-TV18