India will have 40 new Vande Bharat Express trains by 2022 as the Indian Railways has finalised the timeline for manufacturing them again and started a tendering process for the purpose, according to officials aware of the development.
The officials said the production was stopped over allegations of favouritism and lack of transparency, earlier this year. The railway board has now started the tendering process for resuming the manufacturing after railway minister Piyush Goyal’s intervention, the officials added.
Two rakes of Vande Bharat Express are currently available for operations and one of them runs between Delhi and Varanasi.
Indian Railways plans to introduce more Vande Bharat Express trains and has identified the Bangalore-Hyderabad, Mumbai-Ahmedabad and Kolkata-Patna as possible routes.
Read more of this in a report by Faizan Haidar published in Hindustan Times... (Link given below)
