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national transporter to increase its freight market share by 28%.

Officials said that the railways has set a target of 40% share in freight traffic by 2030. The work is going on at Fastrack Mod and it is estimated that it will be operational by December 2022. The prototype of the new-design freight Vande Bharat- freight EMUs (Electric Multiple Units) is expected to be ready by December, after which the transporter plans to introduce one such train every month. All those new trains are likely to be deployed on the busiest routes of the Railways. All these new trains are more likely to be deployed on the busiest routes of the railways, mainly for carrying parcels of e-commerce firms, an enterprise which is currently monopolized by roadways. The official said that this new series will be named ‘Freight Metros’, although the name has not been finalized yet.
According to an official, “As new freight trains connect the metro and other big cities with schedules on the most lucrative routes of the railways, we will be aiming to carry parcels of companies like Amazon and Flipkart. With this train, the railway road carrier will be about 2.5 times faster, and in some areas, we will even compete with air cargo carriers. At present, the routes connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai carry most of the railways’ freight site visitors.” Read more – Indian Railways’ big move to make trains ‘collision free’ Sitaraman in his budget speech in February What was said? It is to be noted that in her budget speech in February, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talked about 400 new generation Vande Bharat trains which use higher power capacity and passenger experience, but this new freight train collection It didn’t make any sense.

Yet take a better look at the Railways’ Pink Guide, which will reveal the detailed asset acquisition allocation for the financial year 2022-23 to acquire 25 units of freight EMUs, each costing ₹60 crore. That is, the amount of attention the BJP has given to the renovation in its government has become a roadblock for it. The way the winds of radical change have been blowing on the railway system in the last 8 years have given new wings to the dreams of running a bullet train gallop in India in the coming years. This proves that BJP means business, development as they insist on high-speed freight corridors.