VANDE BHARAT EXPRESS IS A SYMBOL OF A RESURGENT AND ASPIRATIONAL INDIA

Sudhanshu Mani, Creator & Innovator, Vande Bharat Express

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India’s first indigenous semi-high-speed train has gained popularity among the citizens. Hailing the successful operation of Vande Bharat Express during the DisruptX talk at the Festival of Manufacturing, Sudhanshu Mani, the creator and innovator of the Vande Bharat Express train, said that the manufacturing and production of blue and white colour trains have boosted the ‘Make In India’ campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government. “The production of Vande Bharat Express has added spin to the journey of India towards a self reliant or Aatma Nirbhar Bharat,” he added. But the journey of creating Vande Bharat Express was not an easy cakewalk for Mani and his team. Ministry officials doubted our claims to develop a world-class train at one-third cost; they thought our claim was just a publicity stunt," Mani said.

During the interaction with the audience, he revealed that when he approached the then Chairman of the Railway Board. He pitched Train 18 to him, and even assured that the ICF team can manufacture a worldclass train at one-third the cost of importing such a train from abroad.