CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Vande Metro Train: After Vande Bharat Express, Indian Railways to introduce indigenously designed Vande Metro in 2023. Vaishnaw stressed that Vande Metro trains are being built considering the need of the middle-class and the poor. Vande Metro train would roll out in December 2023.

Detailed explanation-2: -BENGALURU: The Railways is manufacturing Vande Metro train which will replace those designed in 1950s and 60s, Railways and Communication Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Sunday. He also said that the first indigenously designed and built hydrogen train would roll out in December 2023.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 27 January 2019, the train service was renamed the Vande Bharat Express to honour the fact that the train was manufactured entirely in India for covering distances of 500kms to 750kms. It was designed with the vision of low-cost maintenance and cost optimization in mind. It began operations on 15 February 2019.

Detailed explanation-4: -On 16th April 1853, the first passenger train ran between Bori Bunder (Bombay) and Thane, a distance of 34 km. It was operated by three locomotives, named Sahib, Sultan and Sindh, and had thirteen carriages.