BENGALURU: The Bengaluru Railway Division will build a Rs 270-crore new depot-cum-workshop near the Thanisandra railway station to maintain sleeper coaches of Vande Bharat, announced Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Bengaluru Railway Division, Parikshit Mohanpuria. These coaches were inspected by Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at a Bharat Earth Movers Limited facility on Saturday.
Briefing newspersons at the DRM office on Sunday evening, Mohanpuria said, “The Railway Board has already given its approval for it. We are now conducting the survey for the workshop. We are expecting the coaches to come here for maintenance by the end of the year and want to keep the workshop ready by then.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually lay the foundation stone for the development of trains here on March 12.
