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Vande Bharat Express : Railways to erect Rs 264 crore fence to stop cows

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New Delhi:Vande Bharat Express was inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi on September 30. With this, the Vande Bharat Express hit the cow and buffalo in four times. A woman from Gujarat was also killed after being hit by the train.The first accident took place within days of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inauguration. After this, Vande Bharat Express has been ‘belined’ five times in the last two months. In such a situation, the railway authorities have decided to put a fence on both sides of the journey of this high-speed train.

For which the estimated cost is Rs 264 crore.On Thursday night, a semi-high speed train from Mumbai to Gandhinagar hit a cow between Udvada and Vapi stations. Western Railway official Sunil Thakur said that due to the accident, there was a small crack in the front panel of the train. Ashok Kumar Mishra, general manager of The Western Railway, said in front of the western railway headquarters at Church Gate in Mumbai on Friday night, “Vande Bharat Express has a journey of 620 km. There will be a fence on both sides of it.

’’The train was inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi on September 30. After that, the Vande Bharat Express hit cows and buffaloes in four phases. On November 8, a woman was run over by the Vande Bharat Express near Anand station, around 100 km from Gandhinagar station.Vande Bharat Express can run at a speed of 160 kmph in a little more than two minutes. According to western railway sources, the train is much more comfortable than other trains. But it has already been alleged that running this high-speed train in the populated areas is risky.

Questions have also been raised as to why the ‘modern train’, which was inaugurated by the Prime Minister after a huge expenditure and publicity, is facing repeated disasters in real circumstances. In such a situation, the railway authorities have decided to spend another Rs 264 crore to make vande Bharat ‘safe’.

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