254 Ethiopian Youth are to leave for China for Train Operation and Maintenance Training For the Addis Ababa light train that will begin operation next year

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254 Ethiopian youth are selected to be sent to China to be trained as Train operator and maintenance expert. Among the 254 youth 136 of them will be trained for Rail Master Position and the remaining for train maintenance and other related tasks. The training will take from four to eleven months.

For the training of the youth whom are said to be selected from the country’s highly acclaimed educational institutions the government of Ethiopia has budgeted four million dollars.

Though France was the world renowned for its train operation training since the price is ten times higher the Ethiopian government has chosen to train its train technicians in China.

The fact that the Addis Ababa’s light train itself is being built by the Chinese company and technology is also the reason behind sending the Ethiopian youth to china for the training.

But since the train operation needs extreme care and experience, the trainees will not be put on service when they come home directly. For this two alternatives are put in place the first of it being to use Chinese train masters and operators send by the Chinese company for some time and the other one being to give the railway and the train’s operation to a foreign company by contract for two or three years.