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| Over 1,000 Amrit Bharat Trains to be made in coming tears: Railway Minister | | |  agencies
NEW DELHI, Mar 2: India will manufacture at least 1,000 new-generation Amrit Bharat trains in the coming years while work is also underway to make trains that can run at 250 kmph, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday. In an exclusive interview to PTI-Videos, he also said the Railways has already started working on the export of Vande Bharat trains and the first export is expected within the next five years. While speaking on the transformational initiatives taken by the Railways in the last 10 years of the Narendra Modi government, he said the world's highest railway bridge (Chenab bridge) and the first under-river water tunnel (for the Kolkata metro) are some of the significant technological advancements that happened in the rail sector.
Ashwini Vaishnaw also spoke on the beginning of the construction of India's first under-sea tunnel between Mumbai and Thane as part of the ongoing Bullet train project and said there are about only five countries in the world that have such technologies.
The 21-km-long proposed tunnel between Mumbai and Thane will have a 9.7-km passing through the sea, 54 metres below its surface.
Ashwini Vaishnaw also delved into Railways' fare structure and its service to the general public. "We carry about 700 crore people every year, 2.5 crore practically every day. The fare structure is such that if the cost of carrying a person is Rs 100, we charge Rs 45. So we give 55 per cent discount to every person who travels by the railways on an average," Vaishnaw said.
Talking about affordability, the minister said, "We have designed Amrit Bharat which is a world-class train. It provides 1,000 km of travel at a price of only Rs 454. That is the kind of affordability that has been provided." India will manufacture at least 1,000 new-generation Amrit Bharat trains in the coming years and the work to make trains that can run at a speed of 250 kmph was on, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.
Ashwini Vaishnaw provided a break-up of the total annual expenditures of the Railways and said that expenditure on pensions, salaries, energy bill and lease-interest payments are Rs 55,000 crore, 97,000 crore, 40,000 crore and Rs 32,000 crore respectively.
Another Rs 12,000 crore goes on maintenance and all get combined to become about Rs 2.40 lakh-crore. "We have been able to meet all these expenses because the team has been working very hard under the prime minister's guidance," Ashwini Vaishnaw said.
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