NEW DELHI, June 30 -- The Railway Board has expressed serious concern over the zones selling metal scrap instead of sending it to wheel manufacturing factories, posing a risk of disruption to wheel production targets in 2026-27. The Board, in its previous circulars in 2007 and 2008, had directed all zones to stop the sale of heavy melting scrap (HMS), condemned axles and the like, and to send these materials exclusively to the two wheel-manufacturing factories - Rail Wheel Factory (RWF), Yelahanka, Karnataka; and Rail Wheel Plant (RWP), Bela, Bihar - for the production of wheels and axles.
In a recent letter dated June 17, the Board assigned targets to each zone for the supply of scrap material based on the estimated quantity generated ove...