As this is being written, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was busy flagging off the “Vande Bharat” express train at Gandhinagar in Gujarat, built under the Make in India scheme by the Perambudur Rail Factory in Chennai, India, inspired by Japan’s bullet trains. This is the third train under the ‘Vande Bharat Express’ scheme which started in 2019. But this is the first start between Mumbai-Ahmedabad under Vande Bharat Yojana.
If we consider the factors like corona crisis, lockdown, disruption in the supply chain etc., it is not a small achievement to develop this kind of train, machinery and machinery at home in just three years. Right now there is a lot of good news coming from the central government regarding development, it seems that India’s car is back on track. In full speed. The isolation facility of the bullet train which is being built by Japan between Mumbai-Ahmedabad will also become operational by the year 2026. If Uddhav Thackeray’s Maharakas Aghadi had not blocked the way of the bullet train by calling personal irritation a problem of the state, then that bullet train would have been running by 2024.
Actually our bullet train i.e. Vande Bharat Express is semi high-speed train. Its speed capacity will be increased gradually. While this is India’s first step towards fast trains, it is a welcome one. Vande Bharat Express will make travelers feel like they are traveling in an airplane. In order to prevent the train from colliding with another train or any obstacle, it has been fitted with advanced ‘shield’ technology developed in India.
Vande Bharat Express has a fully suspended traction system, in which even if the train is running at a speed of 108 Km., the water in the glass kept on the table does not move. A very pleasant and easy journey. Passing the potholes on the roads, reaching the station and taking the train, you will feel that you have entered a new world. Each class of the train has seats that can be extended. You’ll feel like you’re traveling in Rahul Gandhi’s air-conditioned, luxurious container. To get a place in Rahul’s career, it is necessary to be a leader.
But even a common man can feel like a VIP by paying a small amount in Vande India. The train has special facilities of Wi-Fi, CCTV cameras, fire sensors. CCTV cameras are also installed outside the compartment so that the condition of the platform, the station or the outside view can be seen. Environment preservation precautions have been taken in the design of the train. Will burn 30% less electricity compared to other trains. It has a special mechanism to purify the air. The total weight of the train has been reduced by 38 tonnes to 392 tonnes.
Being made of stainless steel, it can move even in two feet deep water. The luggage storage plan has been made more convenient. The train has such advanced toilets that you can see the toilets of five star hotels. But in today’s neater trains some of the Indian people do not know how to use the toilet. Many tragedies – comedies are created in railway toilets. Arrangements have to be made so that people can easily get education and understanding. Or Akshay Kumar will have to release a ‘sequel’. Well! This toilet problem will remain until the whole world becomes toilet-literate and engineers stop inventing new technologies.
Japan also enjoys exploring new bullet train technologies and launching new train routes. There are bullet trains known as ‘Shinkansen’. It is also known as ‘Kamome’ meaning seagull bird because of its shape and style. A bullet train has just started on Japan’s Kyushu island. Journalists from home and abroad were present to witness and cover the inauguration. Because this is the most advanced bullet train of Japan which is superior to previous and current bullet trains in many ways. A foreign journalist went to the toilet of the train.
The door closed automatically. Journalists and TV cameramen stood outside with cameras fixed on the journalist. A journalist’s hand accidentally touched a sensor in the toilet, causing the door to open four times and close four times. Laughter broke out among the media people. If you go to anyone’s house or hotel in America, you have to ask how their faucets and toilets work. If you don’t realize it, go light and come out heavy with water-soaked hair and clothes. There is no understanding of hot and cold water. Sometimes burns.
This train on Kyushu Island has six coaches. Connects Tokyo-Onsen, known for its hot springs, to the city of Nagasaki. Covers a distance of 66 Km in just 23 minutes. The windows of the train lines and coaches are designed so that the passengers can enjoy beautiful views. The 2020 Olympics were pushed back by a year in the wake of the Corona crisis, in a bid to attract tourists to Japan. Japan through this Games was to present Japan’s courtesy and host pace or hospitality at such an ideal level that the world was left in awe. But nothing like that could happen. Now the bullet train attraction has been introduced. Ignorant journalists who do not understand the intricacies of economics write articles that why bullet trains are needed in India? Business thrives with such schemes. This writer thumps his chest and says that after the start of the bullet train in Gujarat, see the unprecedented acceleration in activities and employment!
But just the arrival of the bullet train will not change the entire culture. Education also has to be given and arrangements have to be made. Slums and dirt encroachment along the rail line have to be removed. Japan’s new bullet train currently runs at a speed of 260 kilometers per hour. And can reach a speed of 300 Km. If the Shinkansen between Mumbai and Ahmedabad runs at this speed, it can cover the distance of five and a half hundred kilometers in around two hours. But the initial speed of the bullet train in India will not be so. It will also take many stations on the way.
There was a lot of excitement among the Japanese on the occasion of the inauguration of this new service. The first tourist tickets for the inauguration sold out online in just ten seconds. Bullet train logos, ice cream cones with pictures, cookies, chocolates, burgers, t-shirts, beer, flags etc. were sold at the venue. It is always found in the shops at the stations of the railway lines. Brad Pitt’s film ‘Bullet Train’ was also specially screened in cinemas. Bullet trains have now become a part of Japanese culture. These trains are based on Maglev technology (magnetic levitation), so there is no question of jolts as they run half a foot above the ground.
Vande Bharat runs on track. This is the difference. Japan loves the bullet train so much that it keeps it brand new and clean, not a second early or late in arrival time. People gain time with the help of bullet train. Bullet train will come to India. But when will that culture like Japan come? A new civilization will come only if the government and especially the people adopt science and technology as religion, and even if it comes, it will take a long time.