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National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRiP) 
Type Government Industry Automotive, Research Headquarters New Delhi, Delhi [1], India Key people Ambuj Sharma, CEO & PD and Dinesh Tyagi, Director Technical Website [1] National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRiP), the largest and one of the most significant initiatives in Automotive sector so far, represents a unique joining of hands between the Government of India, a number of State Governments and Indian Automotive Industry to create a state of the art Testing, Validation and R&D infrastructure in the country.
The Project aims at creating core global competencies in Automotive sector in India and facilitate seamless integration of Indian Automotive industry with the world as also to position the country prominently on the global automotive map.[2] NATRiP aim to create a testing, validation and R&D infrastructure, had announced to invest Rs 1,718 crore for setting up of seven auto testing facilities at seven locations across India by 2011.[3] NATRIP is forging ahead at a fast pace on schedule. Currently, tenders worth more than Rs 1642.97 Cr have been floated and tenders worth around Rs 1403.98 crore have been finalized [4] The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in their meting held on 28 April 2011 has approved the revised time lines and escalation of cost estimate of the project. Accordingly, now the revised cost estimates would be Rs. 2268.06 crore with project completion date on December, 2012.[5]
List of Test Centres
The facilities under NATRiP at Manesar, Chennai, VRDE Ahmednagar, ARAI Pune, Rae Bareilly, Silchar and Indore will provide comprehensive homologation and product testing and validation facilities for vehicles and components and will also foster global competencies for generic research and development geared to catapult India into the league of nations with automotive excellence.Centres being established under this project are[6]-
Sr. No. Name of Centre 1 ICAT - Manesar 2 GARC - Chennai 3 NATRAX - Indore 4 ARAI - Pune 5 NCAT - Ahmednagar 6 East Centre - Silchar Region-wise Centres
As part of NATRIP, the following test centres have been finalised to setup the test facilities as described below[7]:
- West centre
- A full fledged testing and homologation facilities at ARAI, Pune and VRDE, Ahmednagar.
- South Centre
- Chennai (Tamil Nadu) – A full fledged testing and homologation centre.
- North Centre
- Manesar (Haryana) - A full-fledged testing and homologation centre within the northern hub of automotive industry.
- World-class proving grounds
- Testing tracks on 4,098 acres of land at Indore in Madhya Pradesh.
- Tractor test centre
- Centre for Testing of Tractors and Off-Road Vehicles together with accident data analysis and specialized driving training at Rae Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.
- In-use vehicle Management centre
- National Specialized Hill Area Driving Training Centre at Dholchora (Silchar) Assam,
- Inspection and Maintenance Station for in use vehicles and Mechanics Institute at Jaffirband (Silchar) Assam.
Reference
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