The Kinet Railway Solutions, which is an Indo-Russian joint venture between TMH (Russia) and Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) has recently completed the first car body of Vande Bharat Sleeper train.
Indo-Russian Joint Venture In Progress
Announcing the same, the company said, “We are pleased to announce the successful completion of the first fully integrated car body at our Latur facility,” in a statement.
Coming to this Indo-Russian joint venture, It has been established between leading Russian rolling stock major TMH and Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) for the manufacturing and maintaining 120 Vande Bharat Sleeper Trains (or 1,920 coaches) for Indian Railways.
Coming to this venture, the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) is aiming to roll out the first Vande Bharat Sleeper prototype by June 2026.
The work on the Vande Bharat Sleeper project is progressing very well, said Saleem Ahmad, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) Chairman and Managing Director during speaking the Q3FY26 Earnings Conference Call.
Vande Bharat Project Going As Planned
Moving ahead, the RVNL CMD said, “Vande Bharat is a very prestigious project for us also and railways. And right now, our work is going on as per the planned progress. Our first milestone will be to give the prototype to the railways. And we are hopeful to achieve this milestone within this year as per the program of the railway, which is, I think, June 2026.”
We already know that the Ministry of Railways has awarded the contract to manufacture Vande Bharat Sleeper trains to three companies including BEML, Kinet Railway Solutions (a Joint Venture between Russian rolling stock major TMH and Rail Vikas Nigam Limited – RVNL) and a consortium of Titagarh Rail Systems Limited and Bharat Heavy Engineering Limited (BHEL).
Out of these, the Howrah-Kamakhya-Howrah Vande Bharat Sleeper train which was already launched in January 2026 was developed by BEML using Chennai-based Integral Coach Factory (ICF) technology.
