Indian Railways plans to introduce a sleeper variant Vande Bharat trains and full very important railway initiatives in Jammu and Kashmir throughout the first 100 days of the brand new authorities’s tenure, officers advised ET.They additionally talked about that the 100-day plan consists of the finalisation of the rolling inventory procurement course of for the bullet practice’s trial run by August 2026.
Officials talked about that the Chennai’s Integral Coach Factory is getting ready the sleeper variants of Vande Bharat Express for lengthy-distance in a single day journeys. These new trains will supply more consolation to passengers on prolonged journeys.
Indian Railways 100-day highway map
One Vande Bharat sleeper practice is at the moment below manufacturing at BEML in Bengaluru. Earlier this yr, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had inspected its coach shell. TOI had solely introduced its readers the primary proposed look of the brand new Vande Bharat sleeper practice.
The authorities has elevated the funds for rolling inventory manufacturing to over Rs 1 lakh crore. Additionally, work is progressing on 200 sleeper variant Vande Bharat trains below a public-personal partnership.
Another main focus is the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramula Rail Link, aiming to attach Kashmir to the remainder of the nation. The completion of this Rs 37,012-crore project will facilitate practice journey from Jammu to Srinagar. Notably, the world’s highest railway bridge on the Chenab River is full and work on some tunnels is pending to connect with the Chenab Rail Bridge.
The procurement plan for the Ahmedabad-Mumbai excessive-velocity rail, that’s India’s first bullet practice, is about to be finalized within the preliminary 100 days of the brand new authorities’s time period. The excessive-velocity rail project is backed by a Rs 40,625-crore mortgage from the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
