India needs a lot of capacity addition in years to come, says Alain Spohr

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Shine Jacob 

At a time when India is planning huge investments in signalling, electrification and metro rail, Alain Spohr, managing director, Alstom India & South Asia, talks to Shine Jacob about the company's roadmap. While betting big on the merger with Siemens, Spohr also sees huge growth in the Indian market with the upcoming infrastructural projects.

Edited excerpts: Last year, Alstom and Siemens had agreed to merge the rail business globally. What is the status of that? We are in the process of getting non-compete clearances from various organisations. In the meantime, it is ...

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First Published: Mon, July 02 2018. 07:01 IST