Evincing curiosity in essentially the most formidable initiative of the Railways, Bombardier, Siemens and BHEL amongst 9 gamers have submitted bids for offering propulsion electrics for the manufacturing of 58 Vande Bharat trains at an estimated price of Rs 2,500 crore.
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day announcement final 12 months, the Railways floated a second tender for 58 Vande Bharat practice units to be able to roll out 75 such trains throughout the 75 weeks of “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”.
Earlier final 12 months, the Railways awarded the contracts to Medha for manufacturing 44 Vande Bharat trains at Integral Coach Facory ICF. The contract consists of designing and manufacturing propulsion, management and different gear for making 44 rakes of Vande Bharat practice units.
CG Energy, Medha, Electrowave Electronics, Hind Rectifiers, Saini Electricals and Titagarh Wagons are different gamers who’ve submitted their bids for manufacturing of 58 Vande Bharat trains.
At the moment the bids are being technically evaluated and it will take a couple of month to finish the method, stated a senior Railway Ministry official.
58 Vande Bharat rakes are anticipated to have upgraded facilities in addition to higher seating, safety, and surveillance programs. A few of the new facilities/security options deliberate to be added embody 4 emergency home windows for straightforward evacuation of passengers in case of an emergency; catastrophe lights in all coaches, for use within the occasion of failure of all different lights in a catastrophe scenario; extra emergency push buttons.
The coaches will even have a centralised coach monitoring system for all electrical, local weather management, and different important capabilities of the practice set. An necessary improve within the new coaches will likely be a “pushback association” for higher reclining of seats.
The primary prototype of Vande Bharat manufactured by Medha is predicted to reach by early Could this 12 months. Thereafter, on profitable commissioning, the agency will likely be delivering a mean of six rakes per quarter.
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