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Featuremanufacture complete railway vehicles in India, world's most dense train operation service coveringincluding bogies, carbody production units, a final nearly 125 km of rail network. Every day around 2,500assembly area, and state-of-the-art rail equipment. The trains run on time, safely accommodatingcompany also has research and development and approximately 7 million passengers.training centres in India.In the field of rail control solutions, Bombardier is alsoBombardier's long-standing relationship with Indian responsible for the train control and signalling systemRailways began with the award of a contract in 1993 to of two line sections on the Delhi Metro, covering 38.6design and build electric mainline passenger and km. Its transportation solutions represent more than 30freight locomotives, combined with a technology per cent of the Delhi Metro phase II expansion, whichtransfer agreement for the manufacture of locomotives carries about 4 million passengers every day.in India. More recently, the Delhi Metro RailThe company's awareness of the importance ofCorporation (DMRC) awarded Bombardier severalprotecting the environment and sustainable mobilitycontracts to supply a total of 614 state-of-the-artextends to its global production processes andBOMBARDIER MOVIA high-capacity metro vehicles totechnologies. In India, Bombardier follows the samecombat traffic congestion and to provide effectiveglobal standards as in any other country. Bombardier ispublic transport in New Delhi. Bombardier todayinvolved in Delhi Metro being the first railway project inproduces an impressive one metro car per day at itsthe world to receive valuable carbon credits forSavli plant. The site has successfully delivered over 500regenerative braking. The BOMBARDIER MITRACcars to the DMRC in two short years, meeting the tightpropulsion system and regenerative braking, which candeadlines for the Commonwealth Games 2010 as wellgenerate up to 30 per cent in energy savings, hasas the expectations of India's most significantcontributed to the DMRC earning more than INR 20trendsetters in the country's metro rail industry.million under the United Nations Clean DevelopmentBombardier's Propulsion and Controls Production and Mechanism (CDM). The CDM enables emission-Development Centre at the Maneja site in Vadodara, reduction projects to earn carbon credits, eachGujarat, was recently expanded and has been equivalent to one tonne of CO2. These carbon creditssupplying Indian Railways for decades with converters can then be traded and sold, thereby stimulatingand electronic devices for train control and sustainable development and emission reductions. Thecommunications.initiative has led Delhi Metro to become the first railwayproject based on regenerative braking to be registeredBombardier has also contributed to Trafficby the United Nations Framework Convention onManagement Systems for Mumbai's Western andClimate Change.Central Railways. Together, these systems manage theKarna Gupta Named Head of ITACCerticom Corporation CEO Karna Gupta, who made headlines in 2009 in stoppinghostile takeover of his encryption company by BlackBerry, has been appointed thepresident and CEO of the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC).The apex body of the Canadian information and communications technologyindustry, ITAC member companies generate $155 billion in revenue each year.Gupta has been the CEO of the Toronto-area Certicom Corporation which is aleader in encryption technology.The technology developed by Gupta's company has made BlackBerry the darling ofgovernment officials and corporate honchos for secure transfer of messages anddata.22Indo-Canadian Business October - December 2011