Vande Bharat Express: In 2019, Prime Minister Modi flagged the country’s first Vande Bharat Express. Today, most people prefer to travel by Vande Bharat train. Travelling by Vande Bharat Express saves a lot of time. Along with this, there is no crowd on the Vande Bharat train. Let us tell you that in the last one year, there has been an increase of up to 56 percent in the income from the train coming under the category of Vande Bharat train.
On the other hand, the bad news is coming for those travelling by Vande Bharat train. Bad news is coming for rail passengers from South Central Railway. The number of coaches in the Secunderabad-Nagpur Vande Bharat Express train has been reduced. This train is running with 20 coaches, but starting on February 19, it has been decided to run it with eight coaches.
Vande Bharat trains run from Hyderabad to Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra. People who do business and jobs travel from Telangana daily. Due to this, trains have been made available from Hyderabad to Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Bengaluru, and Nagpur to increase rail connectivity with Telangana.
When did the Vande Bharat train run?
Trainss for Tirupati and Bengaluru were made available several months ago. The Secunderabad-Nagpur train became available to passengers on September 16 last year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated this train. However, since the start of the train, passengers have been travelling less. Although these trains run with a total of 20 coaches, half of the seats in them remain vacant.
Almost all the coaches of the train are empty. There is no crowd in the train. Railway officials said that in the last five months, from September 2024 to January 2025, the average occupancy of Nagpur-Secunderabad (train number 20101) Vande Bharat Express was 33.81 per cent.
This Vande Bharat train is being run to increase commercial and economic relations between Telangana and Maharashtra. This train has not received a good response from the passengers. As a result, the number of coaches was reduced. From the 19th of this month, the number of coaches has been reduced from 20 to eight.