The Indian Railways is aiming at a 14-minute “miracle” with the Vande Bharat. Starting October 1, the semi high-speed trains will be cleaned in 14 minutes instead of the three to four hours it takes to finish the task. And this feat will be achieved manually.

Inspired by Japan’s bullet trains, which are cleaned in seven minutes, staff will now aim at cleaning the Vande Bharat trains in 14 minutes. “For each coach of the Vande Bharat train, a total of four cleaning staff will be deployed and the task will be manually executed. Cleaning staff has received training for over a month and held multiple mock drills,” high railway sources advised News18.

Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated the initiative shall be launched at Delhi Cantonment railway station. The cleansing system shall be concurrently launched in additional than 29 Vande Bharat trains at stations together with Shirdi, Solapur, Ahmedabad, Kasaragod, Puri, Guwahati, Ranchi, Chennai amongst others, and this shall be a day by day affair.

In January, Vaishnaw had spoken concerning the change within the cleansing technique of India’s premium trains. Once this course of turns into totally purposeful and efficient, the railways shall be adopting the identical mechanism in all its trains.

“Lakhs and lakhs of passengers journey every day. It is just honest that their journey expertise ought to be world class, and cleanliness is an important side,” said a top source.

The indigenous Vande Bharat train was first launched between Delhi and Varanasi in February 2019. At least 68 of these train services are functional at present.