new delhi delhi metro is going to mark another first for the country a made in india signalling system arguably the most critical component of the metro train operations delhi metro rail corporation dmrc and other such entities in the country now depends on foreign manufacturers for sophisticated signalling systems on tuesday dmrc took a major step towards the development of an indigenously built communicationbased train control cbtcbased signalling technology for the metro with the launch of iats indigenous automatic train supervision an important subsystem of the signalling system this prototype system and a laboratory for further developing other subsystems of the indigenous cbtc technology were inaugurated at shastri park by durga shanker mishra secretary of the union housing and urban affairs ministrytoi was the first to report in march last year that dmrc is going to develop its own signalling system in collaboration with centre for development of advanced computing bharat electronics ltd bel niti aayog and the ministry to become selfreliant and also help other metro operators in the country while most components for metro systems and trains are now made in india dmrc is heavily dependent on germanybased bombardier and siemens and francebased alstom for the signalling systemats is a computerbased system which manages train operations it is indispensable for highdensity operations such as the metro where services are scheduled every few minutes said anuj dayal executive director of corporate communications at dmrc to take the project forward dmrc and bel entered into a mou for development of the indigenous ats system a dedicated team of dmrc and bel ghaziabad worked together round the clock to take this important step towards atmanirbhar bharat dayal said dmrc has decided to use iats while upgrading the ats of red line from rithala to shaheed sthal ghaziabad and in phase iv he saidiats can work with different suppliers and different levels of technologies of train control and signalling systems and is also suitable for introduction in indian railways which is now introducing centralized train control at a large scale that uses parts of ats functions dayal saidanother mou was signed with bel for indigenous development of the rolling stock drivers training system for imparting troubleshooting skills to train operators we are totally dependent on import for this it will be a mockup of a trains driving cab with a computerbased system at the back end where different real life scenarios will be created to train the operator he said