Titagarh Wagon of Bengal expressed interest in running the train

Titagarh Wagon of Bengal expressed interest in running the train

Several Indian companies want to run the railways. Foreign companies are also running

The Indian Ministry of Railways held meetings with 23 companies on private rail projects. The Railway Board held meetings with both domestic and foreign companies. According to the Ministry of Railways, this meeting is actually a pre-application meeting.

The Ministry of Railways has explained what the privacy policy is going to be like, as various organizations have said before taking over the private railways. Titagarh Wagon of West Bengal was present at the meeting on private railways.

Among the 23 companies that showed interest were foreign companies like Bombardier and Alstom. There were several companies including BHEL, BEML, IRCTC, CAF, Medha, JKB Infrastructure, Bharat Forge, Starlight. Of these, IRCTC runs trains like the Tejas.

Titagarh Wagon has experience in making various types of railway coaches and at the same time, they are bringing highly modern metro coaches at the very beginning of their self-reliance project in Pune Metro.

As a result, competition among the organizations that attended the meeting is fierce. According to non-governmental organizations, such meetings are being held repeatedly so that the central government's project is not limited to pens and is fully successful.

According to the Ministry of Railways, the bidding will start next March. All these private trains will run across a total of 12 clusters across the country.

Howrah is one of the clusters. Private trains will run on a total of 6 routes in this cluster. From Howrah to Delhi, which will run every day, will take 18 hours. Howrah to Chennai, running daily, will take 28 hours.

Howrah to Bangalore will run every day, taking 33 hours. Howrah to Ranchi will run every day, taking 6 hours. Howrah to Puri will run every day, will take 6 hours, will run every day. Howrah to Pune, two days a week. It will take 28 hours. From Sealdah to Guwahati, 3 days a week. It will take 18 hours.

All private trains will have sophisticated facilities. For example, this train will run at 160 km per hour. Passengers will not feel any kind of shock. No sound will reach the ears of the passengers. Sophisticated braking system.

Sliding doors on every coach. The door will be open from both inside and outside. There is a talking bag inside the room. With the help of which the passengers can talk directly with the driver and guard.

All rooms have multiple CCTV cameras, which allow the driver to see everyone. The room will have a digital board on both ends. The glass of each window will be glazed safety glass so that the outside light or sunlight will not enter.

Last December, the policy committee had given clearance to run private trains. This time, the organization showed interest in discussing all these issues.

Commenting on the meeting, Umesh Chowdhury, CMD, Titagarh Wagon, said, "We have been showing interest in rail relations for a long time. We think we will be able to meet all these demands and run the railways."

At the same time, the company is hopeful that running this private train will not hurt. A comfortable rail service will benefit here as well as in European countries. IRCTC already runs special trains like Tejas.

Debashish Chandra, one of their top officials, said, "Tejas has become a standard mark. As a result, people's interest in private trains has increased a lot."

It will be known in a few days which clusters will be responsible for which companies. However, the companies showing interest in private trains are moving forward with the assumption that the project will be a complete success, not in writing.