The Kasaragod to Trivandrum practice is the best-performing Vande Bharat Categorical with a median occupancy of 183 per cent among the many 23 pairs of such trains working throughout the Railway community, in keeping with official information.
The Vande Bharat Categorical between Trivandrum and Kasaragod in Kerala, with a median occupancy of 176 per cent is the subsequent best-performing practice, adopted by the Gandhinagar-Mumbai Central Vande Bharat Categorical with a median occupancy of 134 per cent.
On February 15, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the primary Vande Bharat Categorical between New Delhi and Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh which was manufactured indigenously on the Integral Coach Manufacturing unit, Chennai.
To this point, 46 Vande Bharat Categorical providers have reached all rail-electrified states of the nation. Encompassing a complete of 24 states and Union territories, the Vande Bharat Categorical fleet has been ever-growing owing to its time-saving characteristic, which saves a median of an hour compared to different trains.
With a most permissible velocity of as much as 160 kmph, it gives sooner acceleration. The Vande Bharat Categorical is the quickest passenger practice on the routes it’s working on.
The trains with prime occupancy embrace the Mumbai Central-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat Categorical (129 per cent), Varanasi-New Delhi Vande Bharat Categorical (128 per cent), New Delhi-Varanasi Vande Bharat Categorical (124 per cent), Dehradun-Amritsar Vande Bharat Categorical (105 per cent), Mumbai-Sholapur Vande Bharat Categorical (111 per cent), Sholapur-Mumbai Vande Bharat Categorical (104 per cent).
Within the japanese area, the Howrah-Jalpaiguri Vande Bharat Categorical has a median occupancy of 108 per cent and on the return journey, it has recorded an occupancy of 103 per cent. The Patna-Ranchi Vande Bharat Categorical has an occupancy of 125 per cent, whereas on its return journey, it has an occupancy of 127 per cent.
Among the many trains that want a leg up in occupancy is the Ajmer to Delhi Cantonment Vande Bharat Categorical (60 per cent) and the Delhi Cantonment to Ajmer practice (83 per cent).
To this point the practice has made 2,140 journeys, and 25,20,370 web passengers have boarded the Vande Bharat Categorical from April 1, 2022, to June 21, 2023.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, 2022, throughout her funds speech introduced that 400 new-generation Vande Bharat trains with higher vitality effectivity and passenger driving expertise can be developed and manufactured.
As of July 2022, a young has been awarded for manufacturing 102 Vande Bharat trains and one other tender has been floated for 200 Vande Bharat trains.
