The first consignment of the wheels of the Vande Bharat practice has been airlifted to India from Romania. Due to roadblocks within the procurement of wheels from war-torn Ukraine, the trial run of the practice has been delayed, and now will probably be performed within the month of August as a substitute of later this month, in response to sources quoted in a PTI report. A batch of 128 wheels of Vande Bharat practice was transported from Ukraine to its neighbouring nation Romania by street and the wheels at the moment are being airlifted to India. The Vande Bharat wheels will attain Chennai Airport in three tons. The first, which comprised round 42 wheels, arrived on Wednesday. The different two tons will attain Chennai on May 13 and May 14, they stated.
The wheels might be taken from Chennai to the Hyderabad-based company- Medha Servo Drives, which received the contract for designing in addition to manufacturing propulsion, management together with different gear wanted for the manufacturing of 44 Vande Bharat-type trainsets’ rakes. The agency has been requested by Indian Railways to ship the entire assembled bogie, not merely the design. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced in her Budget speech that within the subsequent three years, 400 Vande Bharat trains might be manufactured. This additionally comes with a plan, which was introduced by PM Modi, to run as many as 75 Vande Bharat trains throughout the nation by Independence Day in 2023.
The unique plan, the report stated, was to start out rolling out these Vande Bharat trains from May this yr. According to the report, the primary one was scheduled to endure testing and trials within the month of May and the second within the month of June. From th interval August-September, 5 to seven Vande Bharat-type trainsets might be produced monthly in ICF Chennai, RCF Kapurthala and MCF Rae Bareli, as per the plan.
According to officers, Indian Railways is about to satisfy the goal set by the PM with orders for wheels that got to a Ukraine-based firm being routed to different corporations. An official stated the work is happening at completely different manufacturing models concurrently and for the reason that different elements are right here already, there shouldn’t be every other delays. The official believes that the goal could be achieved earlier than August 15 subsequent yr.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”