Indian Railways increasing production of Vande Bharat, Tejas, LHB, Vistadome types of coaches in trains
In addition, Indian Railways has invited bids for private participation to induct 151 trains (rakes) over 12 clusters through Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw/PTI
New Delhi: The Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today states, about 5 crore dropped waiting list passengers were observed in 2019-20 due to lack of capacity.
To meet this gap, Indian Railways is already increasing the production of Vande Bharat, Tejas, LHB, Vistadome, etc types of coaches in trains. In addition, Indian Railways has invited bids for private participation to induct 151 trains (rakes) over 12 clusters through Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
The existing passenger train services shall not be affected by the operation of train services through PPP mode and these will be in addition to the existing train services. The list containing details of these train services spread across the entire Indian Railway network had been uploaded on http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/IndicativeRoutesfor12clusters.pdf. The financial bids for all the 12 clusters for the PPP project have been opened on 23.07.2020. The Bids are under financial evaluation.
There is no proposal for privatization of Indian Railways.
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