{"id":586059,"date":"2023-06-22T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T04:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=586059"},"modified":"2023-06-22T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T04:47:36","slug":"first-batch-of-vande-bharat-sleeper-trains-to-be-out-by-march-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/first-batch-of-vande-bharat-sleeper-trains-to-be-out-by-march-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"First batch of Vande Bharat sleeper trains to be out by March next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre will roll out the first batch of sleeper variants of Vande Bharat in March 2024 and the plans to introduce these new trains are on track, railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told The Economic Times (ET). <\/p>\n<p>The design of these sleeper trains, according to Vaishnaw, is being made by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, and will be ready by the end of this year. Currently, 22 trains are being made as per the schedule. <\/p>\n<p>The statement comes against the backdrop of disagreement between the Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) and Russia&#8217;s TMH over the ownership of a consortium that had won the bid to supply 120 Vande Bharat sleeper trains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre will roll out the first batch of sleeper variants of Vande Bharat in March 2024 and the plans to introduce these new trains are on track, railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told The Economic Times (ET). The design of these sleeper trains, according to Vaishnaw, is being made by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai, and will be ready by the end of this year. Currently, 22 trains are being made as per the schedule. The statement comes against the backdrop of disagreement between the Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL) and Russia&#8217;s TMH over the ownership of a consortium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586059","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}