5 players slated to enter bid for making 200 Vande Bharat trains

The Vande Bharat project got a boost this week with significant progress in the two mega tenders to produce the semi-high-speed trainsets.

Five players are slated to qualify for making 200 trainsets on Wednesday, in a tender floated a few months ago, merely a week after two mega players put in their technical bids for 100 aluminium Vande Bharats — a first in India. French rolling stock major Alstom and Swiss makers Stadler with India’s Medha — the two players who have bid for the aluminium trainsets — have jumped into the fray for the 200 trainset deal.