NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today flags off India's first high-speed electric locomotive from Bihar's Madhepura loco factory, in addition to a new bi-weekly Humsafar Express that will ply between Katihar to New Delhi. Here are the key highlights of India's first high-speed electric locomotive:* The engine has been built in Madhepura' Electric Locomotive Factory in collaboration with French firm Alstom under ' Make in India ' initiative.* This is India's first 12,000 horsepower (HP) electric locomotive. Prior to this, 6,000 HP locomotive was India's most powerful electric engine.* With the new locomotive, India will join the elite list countries including Russia, China, Germany and Sweden who have 12,000 HP rail engines.* This locomotive can run at the maximum speed of 110 km per hour.* It is a heavy-haulage locomotive and will significantly improve the speed and carrying capacity of freight trains. It will be used mostly for transportation of coal and iron ore.* The average cost of one high-speed locomotive is around Rs 25 crore.* The factory will roll out 800 such engines in next 11 years.* Out of 800, five will be imported while 795 will be manufactured in India.* Four more locomotives will be rolled out in the current financial year 2018-19.* The factory is a Rs 20,000 crore project. The total project cost includes Rs 1,300 crore for setting up the factory at Madhepura and two loco maintenance depots at Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Nagpur (Maharashtra), besides building 800 locos.* About 35 locomotives will be manufactured at the Madhepura facility in 2019-20 and 60 more in 2020-21.* A team of over 35 engineers has been working to assemble the electric engines.* The foundation stone for the factory was laid in 2007 by then railway minister Lalu Prasad. The factory is spread over 250 acres of land in Madhepura, 284 km northeast of state capital Patna.