{"id":29395,"date":"2025-01-14T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T03:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29395"},"modified":"2025-04-09T02:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:16:02","slug":"amrit-bharat-trains-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/amrit-bharat-trains-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Amrit Bharat Trains 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Amrit Bharat Trains 2.0:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> The new trains are designed to <strong>cater to low and middle-income families<\/strong>, offering a comfortable experience.<\/li>\n<li>Under this initiative50 upgraded trains will be manufactured at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) over the next 2 years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The upgraded trains boast 12 notable enhancements<\/li>\n<li>Semi-automatic couplers<\/li>\n<li>Modular toilets<\/li>\n<li>Ergonomic seats and berths<\/li>\n<li>Emergency talk-back systems<\/li>\n<li>Continuous lighting system, similar to Vande Bharat trains<\/li>\n<li>Advanced pantry car designs<\/li>\n<li><strong>IoT based water level indicators<\/strong> \u2013 Internet based water level indicators to help watering station and on-board staff.<\/li>\n<li>External emergency lights to provide basic lighting during emergency situations like derailments and accidents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Amrit Bharat train is an LHB push pull train. This train has locos at both ends for better acceleration.<\/li>\n<li>It provides improved facilities for rail passengers like beautiful and attractive designed seats, better luggage rack, mobile charging point with suitable mobile holder, LED lights, CCTV, public information system, among others.<\/li>\n<li>Its first version <strong>was launched in 2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1: What is the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme (ABSS)?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is an ongoing Indian Railways mission launched in February 2023 by the Ministry of Railways to redevelop railway stations across India. It is designed for the ongoing development of railway stations with a long-term perspective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/business\/railways-amrit-bharat-2-0-indian-railways-to-roll-out-50-new-trains-in-next-two-years-with-12-key-upgrades-3712377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amrit Bharat Trains 2.0 designed to cater to low and middle-income families, offering a comfortable experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}