{"id":578503,"date":"2023-05-22T12:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T07:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=578503"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T07:07:34","slug":"mumbai-locals-soon-to-be-a-past-vande-metro-to-replace-the-suburban-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-locals-soon-to-be-a-past-vande-metro-to-replace-the-suburban-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai \u2018locals\u2019 soon to be a past: Vande Metro to replace the suburban trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mumbai local trains, the lifeline of the metro city will soon become a past as the Railway Board on Friday approved to procure 238 Vande Bharat Metro trains to upgrade the suburban railway network. PTI reported citing a senior Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These trains will be manufactured by the technology partner ensuring Make in India guidelines of the Centre&#8217;s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. The procurement will be undertaken by MRVC and it will be with maintenance requirements spanning 35 years,&#8221; said an MRVC spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The official informed that the new rakes would be manufactured under Mumbai Urban Transport Project-III (MUTP-III) and 3A (MUTP-3A) project, which are being helmed by the Railway ministry and the Maharashtra government to augment the capacity of the train network. MUTP-III and MUTP-3A projects are worth \u20b910,947 crore and \u20b933,690 crore respectively<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mumbai local trains, the lifeline of the metro city will soon become a past as the Railway Board on Friday approved to procure 238 Vande Bharat Metro trains to upgrade the suburban railway network. PTI reported citing a senior Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) official. &#8220;These trains will be manufactured by the technology partner ensuring Make in India guidelines of the Centre&#8217;s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. The procurement will be undertaken by MRVC and it will be with maintenance requirements spanning 35 years,&#8221; said an MRVC spokesperson. The official informed that the new rakes would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}