Indian Railways is the fourth largest rail network in the world. Lakhs of people travel by Indian Railways every day and this number reaches several crores throughout the year. Today, various modern trains are running in India for short to long distances. At this time, most of the Indians prefer to travel by high speed Vande Bharat train. Today we will tell you why Vande Bharat train is becoming the first choice of passengers.
Vande Bharat Train
Vande Bharat Express is India’s first high speed train. Today Vande Bharat train is running on most of the railway routes in India. Let us tell you that the first Vande Bharat Express train in the country ran between New Delhi and Varanasi on 15 February 2019. At present, more than 102 Vande Bharat Express trains are providing services to the passengers on 100 different routes of the country.
Vande Bharat is a popular train
According to statistics, Vande Bharat has emerged as a popular train in India. This can be gauged from the fact that till March 31, 2024, more than 2 crore 15 lakh passengers have traveled by Vande Bharat train. Whereas on May 7, 2024, the occupancy of Vande Bharat trains was 98%. Vande Bharat train services have received a good response with the average occupancy being 103% till May 7 in the financial year 2024-25. In the last financial year 2022-23, the total occupancy of Vande Bharat trains was more than 96%.
Vande Bharat on most routes of the country
At present, Indian Railways is operating Vande Bharat train on more than 100 routes. Apart from this, Vande Bharat is providing its service to the passengers at the railway stations of 284 districts of the country. You will be surprised to hear that Vande Bharat trains have covered a distance equal to 310 revolutions around the earth in a year.
Features of Vande Bharat
Let us tell you that its modern technology is also the main reason behind the popularity of Vande Bharat train. For example, all the coaches of Vande Bharat Express are equipped with automatic doors, GPS based passenger information system, Wi-Fi service and comfortable seats. The executive coach has the additional facility of 180 degree rotating seats. Apart from this, pantry facility has been provided in all the coaches of this train to serve cold drinks along with hot food. The most important thing is that to reduce the carbon footprint, regenerative brake system has been installed in Vande Bharat train. The coaches of Vande Bharat Express are sound proof, apart from this, in the new design of Vande Bharat Express, Photo-Catalytic Ultraviolet Air Purification System has been installed in the Roof Mounted Package Unit (RMPU) to purify the air.
Vandebharat Sleeper
Due to the increasing popularity of Vande Bharat in the country, Railways is preparing sleeper coaches for Vande Bharat trains. Let us tell you that with the development of sleeper coach, Vande Bharat train will travel long distances and passengers of many other districts will benefit from it.
read this also: Which people get medicines at half price, the government runs this scheme
