{"id":208998,"date":"2022-10-01T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208998"},"modified":"2022-10-01T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T14:12:10","slug":"pm-flags-off-new-vande-bharat-express-between-gandhinagar-and-mumbai-at-gandhinagar-station-in-gujarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-flags-off-new-vande-bharat-express-between-gandhinagar-and-mumbai-at-gandhinagar-station-in-gujarat\/","title":{"rendered":"PM flags off new Vande Bharat Express between Gandhinagar and Mumbai at Gandhinagar Station in Gujarat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>PM flags off new Vande Bharat Express between Gandhinagar and Mumbai at Gandhinagar Station in Gujarat &#8221; <\/b>published in<b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 1st October 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister flagged off Gandhinagar-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express at Gandhinagar station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> being called as \u2018Vande Bharat 2.0\u2019, because of certain upgrades it has received over its predecessors, the two existing trains running from Delhi to Varanasi and Katra.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Vande Bharat Express?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vande Bharat Express<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also known as Train 18, is an Indian semi-high-speed, intercity, EMU train which is operated by the Indian Railways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-fast-tracking-vande-bharat\/\"><b>Click Here to read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the major-upgraded features of Vande Bharat 2.0?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Speed: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can attain a speed of 0 to 100 kilometres per hour in just 52 seconds and a maximum speed of up to 180 kilometres per hour.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Weight: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will weigh 392 tons when compared to the previous version of 430 tons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Safety Features:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The train <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">comes fitted with the automatic anti-collision system Kavach, which the previous trains did not have. Coaches have disaster lights and their battery backup is for three hours, increased from the last one\u2019s one-hour battery backup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Seats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> All the seats are recliner seats as opposed to the previous versions which had fixed backseats in the lower class. Executive Coaches have the added feature of 180-degree rotating seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Wifi: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The train also has a wifi-enabled onboard infotainment system and an LCD display in each coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Air purification<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The internal air is filtered through photocatalytic ultraviolet air purification systems with UV lamps which deactivates 99 percent of germs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cPM flags off new Vande Bharat Express between Gandhinagar and Mumbai at Gandhinagar Station in Gujarat &#8221; published in PIB on 1st October 2022. What is the News? The Prime Minister flagged off Gandhinagar-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express at Gandhinagar station. This is being called as \u2018Vande Bharat&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-flags-off-new-vande-bharat-express-between-gandhinagar-and-mumbai-at-gandhinagar-station-in-gujarat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM flags off new Vande Bharat Express between Gandhinagar and Mumbai at Gandhinagar Station in Gujarat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-208998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}