According to railway officials, the tender panel found the French multinational company’s (MNC) bidding price of Rs 150.9 crore per train set to be too high and urged it to cap it at Rs 140 crore.
The nine trains that the prime minister will launch will connect 11 states, including Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar, West Bengal, Kerala, Odisha, Jharkhand, and Gujarat.
Railway Protection Force (RPF) arrested a man named Firoz Khan (20) for vandalizing the Bhopal-Delhi Vande Bharat Express in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district.
According to the Railways officials, the outer glass of C5 coach seat numbers 43, 44 and EC-1 coach toilets were damaged due to stone pelting on the Vande Bharat Express.
Ashwini Vaishnaw said, "There is a large section of the political establishment that doesn't like Vande Bharat Express. Because they never upgraded when the world was going at a rapid pace far ahead."