Has Vande Bharat Express made the Bullet train less aspirational?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged-off the second Vande Bharat 2.0 train between Himachal Pradesh’s Una and New Delhi on October 13. The train will take about five hours and 20 minutes to cover the stretch — about two hours faster than the other trains. It will take three hours to cover the distance between Delhi and Chandigarh — which falls on the 350-km route.
On September 30th, PM Modi had given green signal to a Vande Bharat 2.0 train between Gandhinagar and Mumbai. The train covers the distance of 492 kilometres in 5 hours and 45 minutes compared to 7-8 hours by ordinary express trains and 6-7 hours by the Shatabdi Express.
