Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has entered the race for a mega ₹58,000 crore contract to manufacture and maintain as many as 200 Vande Bharat trains for the next 235 years.
To this end, tbe central public sector undertaking has formed a consortium with Titagarh Wagons, a Kolkata-based railway wagon manufacturer. Also, with BHEL’s entry, as many as five entities are in the fray to win the contract. The other four are: French railway major Alstom; Medha-Stadler (consortium between Switzerland’s Stadler Rail, and Hyderabad-based Media Servo Dives); Germany’s Siemens, and Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML); and Russia’s Transmashholding which has partnered with an unnamed Indian firm.
