Railways to manufacture own Vande Bharat train wheels

As India’s plans of importing wheels for Vande Bharat trains got stalled due to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the Indian Railways has decided to manufacture them at Yelahanka in Bengaluru.

Vande Bharat is a pet project of PM Narendra Modi.

The war halted manufacturing of the wheels for the rakes in Ukraine but the first batch of 128 wheels, out of a cumulative order for 36,000 at a cost of US$16 million, was especially transported from Ukraine to Romania by road, which is likely to be airlifted to India by the third week of May.