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INFRASTRUCTURE India’s 3 Vande Bharat express is ready to hit the rail tracks soon! Bidding for the proposed Multi-Modal Logistics Park (MMLP) in
MULTI-MODAL LOGISTICS PARK IN CHENNAI TO BE
NEW VANDE BHARAT TRAIN READY TO BE ROLLED OUT!
CHECK EXCITING NEW FEATURES OF INDIA’S SEMI-HIGH
AWARDED IN AUGUST
SPEED TRAIN
Chennai is likely to close on August 10, according to officials in the
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know. The bids will be shortly evaluated and the first MMLP under
Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Railway Minister inaugurated Vande Bharat
train’s new prototype at ICF Chennai recently. Also dubbed as Train
the Bharatmala programme will be awarded later this month,
18, its trial run was successfully completed from ICF Chennai to
they said. “After award of the project, the private sector will make
Padi and then back on Friday. Vaishnaw said that the new Vande
Bids for the Nagpur and Bengaluru MMLPs are expected to close
Bharat train has innovative features which make it a world-class
soon too,” Prakash Gaur, the chief executive of National Highways
train. The Rail minister, who also witnessed the commissioning an investment of around `782.58 crore for the Chennai MMLP.
activities at the furnishing divisions of ICF said that Prime Minister Logistics Management Ltd (NHLML), told
Narendra Modi set a target last year to make 75 Vande Bharat Gaur said bids for the MMLP in Bengaluru will close next, followed
trains on the 75 anniversary of India’s independence. Keeping up by Nagpur.
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with the PM’s vision 75 Vande Bharat trains would be manufactured The Bengaluru MMLP will require an investment of `935.90 crore
and rolled across the nation before August 15, 2023, he said. from the private sector and will be awarded in September.
Vande Bharat Trains will have these exciting new features, check The Nagpur MMLP will need a private sector investment of `599.39
out: crore and it is expected to be awarded in October.
• Manufactured by the Integrated Coach Factory within a short The bidders are competing on a minimum-guarantee revenue
time and in good quality, new Vande Bharat trains will have share.
automatic opening of doors. Passengers will not be allowed to A higher revenue commitment to NHLML boosts a bidder’s
board or de-board moving trains. prospects of getting an MMLP project. This revenue will be payable
• The will be comfortable space in the driver’s cabin for the loco three years after the award of the project.
pilots to operate Gaur said bids for the Indore MMLP will also be called soon.
• For the comfort of passengers, new Vande Bharat train will have In all, NHLML is developing 35 logistic parks under the Bharatmala
reclining chairs Pariyojana. It is estimated that the total investment in MMLPs will
• For passengers who are differently abled, there will be specially be about `70,000 crore. The government and its arms will invest
designed toilets `23,000 crore, while developers that are awarded the projects will
• Vande Bharat train will be tested at a speed of 180 kmph and spend `46,000 crore.
will traverse 50,000 km The train will have better acceleration Feasibility studies are in progress at Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad,
and slowing down capabilities and Coimbatore.It is also being initiated at Anantapur,
• The testing includes dynamic, static, load test and oscillation Visakhapatnam, Jammu, Kanpur, and Bikdin/Jalna. At peak
trials which will be carried out on different kind of situations capacity, the MMLPs are estimated to handle 700 million metric
• All coaches are equipped with emergency lighting, GPS based tonnes (MMT) of cargo. NHLML shall ensure that a minimum four-
audio-visual passenger information system, on-board hotspot lane paved road is provided to the MMLP within two years from the
Wi-Fi for entertainment purposes, and very comfortable seating. appointed date. Rail connectivity in the form of a single line rail
The executive class also has rotating chairs siding to the MMLP is to be provided within four years.
• All toilets are bio-vacuum type. The lighting is dual mode, viz.
diffused for general illumination and personal for every seat ASHOKA BUILDCON GETS LOA FROM EASTERN CENTRAL
• Every coach has a pantry with facilities to serve hot meals, hot RAILWAY
and cold beverages. The insulation is meant to keep heat and Ashoka Buildcon Ltd is in receipt of letter of acceptance (LoA) for
noise to very low levels for additional passenger comfort a project. The company had submitted its bid to the East Central
• After the trials, ICF will manufacture more such trains. As many Railways (“ECR”) and it has received a Letter of Acceptance (LOA)
as 475 such trains will be made in four years to cover all the from ECR for the Project viz. ‘Provision of Train Collision Avoidance
states System (KAVACH) along with two (twenty four) 24 Fiber OFC
• New Vande Bharat trains will be equipped with anti-collision backbone in the sections between Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay
Kavach technology (DDU) and Pradhankhunta (PKA) of the East Central Railway section.’
• These train will have platform side cameras including rear view The accepted Bid Project Cost for the said project is `208.89 crore.
cameras Further in addition to this, the completion period is 24 months from
• India’s 3 Vande Bharat train will run on Mumbai-Ahmedabad the date of LoA.
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route but the exact date of its inaugural run is not finalized yet
The first Vande Bharat Express was launched by Prime Minister G R INFRAPROJECTS TO FLOAT BHARAT HIGHWAYS INVIT
Narendra Modi on 15 February 2019 on New Delhi-Kanpur- The Board of Directors of G R Infraprojects Limited had earlier
Prayagraj-Varanasi route. In his address to the nation on 15 August approved proposal to set up, create, float and sponsor an
2021 from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Infrastructure Investment Trust. In addition to this, the company
Modi announced that during the 75 weeks of the Amrit Mahotsav informed that Bharat Highways InvIT, sponsored by G R Infraprojects
of Independence, 75 Vande Bharat trains will connect every has been granted Certificate of Registration as an Infrastructure
corner of the country. Investment Trust by SEBI on August 03, 2022.

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