Former General Manager of Integral Coach factory, Chennai and now a freelance consultant on rail design and development, Sudhanshu Mani, is the man who is credited with leading the team of engineers that conceptualized and developed India’s first indigenous semi-high-speed train Vande Bharat. In an interview with Rajesh Kumar Thakur, Mani says that running 75 Vande Bharat trains by August 15, 2023, and 400 in the next three years, as announced in the Union Budget, is a “long shot.”
