Vande Bharat project delayed by some officials for making way for private players look like. Following specifications are made in tender-1)The tender specifies pantographs (framework conveying current to a train from overhead wires) suited for 200 km/h speed but that, according to the officer, cannot be tested as no train in India runs at that speed.

2)The tender has changed the battery type from the “proven VRLA to Lithium Iron Phosphate”, which is not used in any train in India and is not even manufactured in the...
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country. 3) Traction motor water proofing increased from 203mm to 400mm and up to 650mm,” the letter says. “Such water levels are never experienced, not even in the Mumbai suburban.” 4)According to the senior official, the time to achieve 160 km/h has been reduced from 190 seconds to 140 seconds, even as computer simulations have established that this does not alter travel time “by more than a few minutes” on the Delhi-Howrah route. And also heavier transformer and heavier traction motors will be required to achieve this, while the train will also need to draw more current form the overhead wires, which will mean additional costs. 5)
the Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) specifications are for procurement of propulsion systems alone, while the new tenders have allegedly exceeded the brief by including the bogeys (purely a mechanical item). Source -Print

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