LUCKNOW: Welcoming the announcement in the Union Budget for manufacturing 400 new generation Vande Bharat trains aka Train-18 in next three years, the maker of the country’s first semi-high-speed train, Sudhanshu Mani, said it will boost the country’s ambition of becoming self-reliant.
Mani, who as the general manager of Integral Coach Factory, Chennai, had led the Vande Bharat Express project and has settled in Lucknow after retirement, said, "Earlier too the government had announced to manufacture 75 rakes of Train-18, but till date only two rakes are rolling on tracks. There is no further development, as attempts have been made to sabotage the entire indigenous project to give an edge to international players manufacturing advanced train coaches and sets."
