PM Narendra Modi this August 15 had stated that 75 Vande Bharat Express trains will connect every corner of the country in 75 weeks of the Amrit Mahotsav of Independence. In view of this, the next set of Vande Bharat trains will come with new facilities, including centralized coach monitoring systems and features specially intended for emergency evacuation, officials said.
These will be in supplement to the Indian Railways two existing Vande Bharat Express trains. The first was launched on the Varanasi-Delhi route and the second on the Katra-Delhi route. The Shatabdi-type semi-high speed trains already have facilities like onboard infotainment, GPS-based passenger information system, CCTV cameras, automatic sliding doors with retractable coach footsteps and zero discharge vacuum-based bio-toilets.
The new enhanced features on these Vande Bharat trains will add four emergency windows for easy evacuation of passengers in case of emergencies, the officials said. Four disaster lights will also be provided in each coach to be used in the event of failure of all other lights in a disaster situation, they said. The number of emergency pushbuttons will also be increased from the present two to four. The officials said that a centralized coach monitoring system for all electrical and climate controls and functioning of other vital systems of the train set has been introduced.
The trains will have a push-back arrangement for reclining of seats for a more convenient travel experience, they said. The new trains will also have fire survival cables indoor circuits, the officials said. The system of air purification has also been reworked with the availability of ventilation for three hours in case of failure of power supply to the roof-mounted air conditioning package unit. This will mean better availability and a more reliable and bacteria-free air conditioning system, officials said.
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