Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala


Rail Coach Factory at Kapurthala is a coach manufacturing unit of the Indian Railways in the state of Punjab. It is located on the Jalandhar-Firozpur railway line.

History

Established in 1986, RCF is a coach manufacturing unit of Indian Railways. It has manufactured more than 30000 passenger coaches of different types including self-propelled passenger vehicles which constitute over 50% of the total population of coaches on Indian Railways. It is a production unit with a target of 1025 coaches per year.
Some of them are:
This output constitutes over 35% of the total population of coaches on Indian Railways. The Rail Coach Factory has produced a record number of coaches in the financial year 2013–14, as it reached the mark of 1701 coaches against installed capacity of 1500 per annum. During the year RCF produced 23 different variants of coaches for high-speed trains like Rajdhani, Shatabdi, double-decker and other trains. The factory in association with DRDE also developed a highly cost-effective indigenous technology for the treatment of biowaste in coaches. Around 2096 bio-toilets have been fitted in 2013–14.
1. Broad Gauge Air Conditioned
2. Broad Gauge Non-Air Conditioned
3. Stainless Steel BG Coaches
4. Meter Gauge Air Conditioned Coaches
5. Self Propelled Coaches
6. Special Purpose Coaches
The factory is also manufacturing 120 Linke-Hofmann-Busch coaches to be exported to Bangladesh at an estimated cost of Rs 367 crore, with the first consignment of 40 set to be dispatched in March 2016. The factory has already exported coaches to South East Asian and African countries which have Metre Gauge rail networks and Indian Railways' past experience in Meter Gauge rolling stock has proved handy in serving these markets.

Employees welfare

Hospital

A 65-bed Hospital supplies free medicine and free check-up to railway staff and their family members.They also refer their patients to the other well reputed hospitals, if the doctors or hospitals cannot handle the case may be due to lack of resources. Doctors refer the hospitals like Tagore hospital, Sacred Heart and IVY Hospital, depending on the case of patient.

Education

The township has two Kendriya Vidhyalaya's, one Government Elementary School, one Government Senior Secondary School, two Jack 'N' Jill schools run by RCF Women's Welfare Organization, of which one handles up to UKG and other up to 6th Standard.

Recreation

A Lake complex in with boating channel and a park in the memory of martyr of The War of Kargil in 1999, which has 'Lakshman Jhula' tied with metal ropes between two hills. Apart from these, it has stadiums and courts for indoor and outdoor games. There are 3 clubs in R.C.F. namely worker club, supervisor club, officer club in which there are facilities of outdoor and indoor games. In Waris Shah Hall many other activities take place like Yoga campaign, Dance and music classes.

Utilities

The township also has Shopping complexes, Banks, Post office, Staff canteen, Karamchari Kalyan Kosh, Handicraft Centre, Creche and a RCF/WWO–run Computer Centre.