Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said in Parliament on Wednesday that the high-speed train sets are being manufactured at the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai in collaboration with BEML. The speed of this high speed train will be 280 km per hour. This train will run faster than Vande India. The Railway Minister, in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, said that Indian Railways has now started designing high-speed train sets after the success of the Vande Bharat train under the ‘Make in India’ initiative.
This train will run at a speed of 280 km per hour
Let us tell you that Vande Bharat is a semi-high speed train, which was launched in the year 2019. The maximum speed of Vande Bharat train is 160 to 180 km per hour. Now the high speed train will run with a speed of 280 km per hour. The railway minister said that the construction cost is approximately Rs 28 crore. He said that 336 km pier foundation, 331 km pier construction, 260 km girder casting and 225 km girder launching have been completed so far under this project.
Questions are being raised about India’s speed
At the same time, in an RTI reply, the Ministry of Railways said that the average speed of Vande Bharat trains in the year 2020-21 was 84.48 kmph. But in the year 2023-24, the average speed of this Vande Bharat train has reduced to 76.25 kmph. Regarding this, a railway official said that not only Vande Bharat but the speed of many trains running in the country has reduced in those places where infrastructure work is going on on a large scale.
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