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Ramkrishna Forgings Ltd on April 15 said it has received an order of ₹270 crore from a consortium led by BHEL to supply bogie frames of Vande Bharat train sets.

The scope of the project involves the development and validation of the bogie frames for the sleeper version of the Vande Bharat train sets, Ramkrishna Forgings Ltd (RKFL) said in a statement.

This order encompasses 32 train sets, each comprising 16 coaches and RKFL will be producing a total of 1,024 bogie frames, it said.

The order valued at ₹270 crore is to be supplied to the BHEL TRSL consortium, the statement said.

Lalit Kumar Khetan, Whole Time Director & CFO, Ramkrishna Forgings Limited said, “Securing the prestigious order is an indication to our relentless pursuit of excellence and innovative approach. We…support the Make in India and the advancement of rail transport in the country by leveraging our expertise in manufacturing high-quality bogie frames.” Kolkata-based Ramkrishna Forgings is a manufacturer and supplier of closed-die forgings of carbon and alloy steel, micro-alloy steel, and stainless steel forgings.

The company also has a presence in the US, Mexico, Turkey, and Belgium.



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Video of ‘Vande Bharat Sadharan’ has gone viral on social media.

Video of a new version of the popular Vande Bharat train is going viral on social media. It shows the train in Solapur, on its way to Mumbai. Though Indian Railways has not assigned any name to the new series of train, social media users are calling

Here are five points on the new train:

  1. This is a sleeper version of the Vande Bharat train that are operationsal on over 30 routes across the country. They are being manufacture at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai.

  2. The new trains are said to be non-air conditioned and work on push-pull mode – a configuration that allows the rakes to be driven from either end of the train, whether having a locomotive at each end or not.

  3. According to news agency PTI, Indian Railways has issued a production plan of 102 Vande Bharat rakes (35 in 2022-2023 and 67 in 2023-2024) within its production units. Out of these, 75 Vande Bharat rakes are planned as chair car version and remaining planned as sleeper version.

  4. The Indian Railways has also planned to manufacture 400 sleeper version of the Vande Bharat trains of three different technologies.

  5. The first Vande Bharat Express, between New Delhi and Varanasi, was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 15, 2019.



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